"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Star of Ill-Omen.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1952. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Some toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, fading to gilt, wearing to edges of dust-jacket causing some light chipping, archival tape neatly applied to crown of spine and front flap, sunning to spine, marking to front cover causing there to be some bleeding of ink visible on reverse. Very good. Dennis Wheatley was a British thriller writer. His stories made him one of the world's best-selling authors, and he was particularly popular between 1930-1960. In this novel, Kem Lincoln, ex-Commando and British secret agent, is sent on a special mission to South America. Although he was aware of the dangers of this task, he had not reckoned for extraterrestrials and abduction. Item #65588
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