London: Collins, 1947. [Alpine Thriller] FIRST EDITION, with a later dust-jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the Cheap Edition dust-jacket, circa 1949, priced at 4/6 and re-priced with a sticker to 5s. Also with the back panel and flap cut from the original jacket loosely tucked in front, hiding advertisements for later titles. A little uneven sunning to cloth spine. Jacket spine sunned, with rubbing and chipping to edges. Very good. Neil Blair is relishing an expenses-paid holiday in the Italian Dolomites, where he plans to finish his film script. All goes wrong, however, when he stumbles on the location of a hoard of buried Nazi gold. From then on, he faces a terrifying race for his life from a group of murderous criminals. Item #59593

Price: £125.00