The Chalon Heads (Limited and signed)
Inbunden bok. Scorpion Press. First, limited edition. Signed by the author uppl. 1998. 326 sidor.
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The Chalon Heads (Limited and signed)
Barry Maitland
Observera att denna bok är på engelska. Please note that this book is in English.
The book is a hardcover with dust jacket. It is new, and in perfect condition. The only fault is that the acetate dust jacket has been mended with tape on the back of the book. It doesn’t affect the book at all, but it is visible. (See picture)
Published by Scorpion Press in 1998.
First, limited edition. Signed by the author.
ISBN 1873567421
A copy of this book costs at least £ 68 on the Internet
Books from Scorpion Press are signed limited editions which are attractive to handle and add distinction to any collection; they are often, but not always available before the trade edition, and they have exclusively to Scorpion Press, an original appreciation of the author by a writer of note.
This limited edition is bound from the sheets of the first edition and published by arrangement with Orion Publishing Group Ltd.
A new signed limited edition (number 12 out of 85 copies), quarter bound in dark red leather with marbled boards, in a fine clear acetate dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Scottish-born but Australian resident Barry Maitland is one of the finest exponents of the modern detective duo currently working. His series with D.S. Kathy Kolla and D.C.I. David Brock contains a sumptuous cocktail of mystery and suspense with an erudite take on some aspect of social history, profession or pastime – in this the 4th in the series the pull is stamp collecting. The doyen of the whodunit H R F Keating provided the appreciation.
When Scotland Yard detectives David Brock and Kathy Kolla are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer of rare stamps, they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of wrongdoing encountered in the Serious Crime Branch. Instead, they find themselves on the trail of an extortionist when they learn that the wife of Sammy China, an unsavoury figure from Brock's past, has been kidnapped. The only clue is a ransom note decorated with rare and valuable Chalon Head stamps of the young Queen Victoria, to whom Sammy's wife bears an uncanny resemblance.
Format: 24x16x3 cm, 326 pages.
