"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light handling and spotting to reverse. Uncommon signed. Near fine. Crichton's best-selling novel based on the Great Gold Robbery of 1855, notably filmed in 1979 starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesly-Anne Down. Item #59936
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