Reader's Digest - Condensed Books (In the Frame + Baker's Hawk + Bring on the Empty Horses + Lord of the Far Island + The Hessian)

Inbunden bok. Reader's Digest Association Limited. 1 uppl. 1976. 509 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag saknas. ENGELSK TEXT. Format 20,5 x 14 x 3 cm Vikt 515 g.
Inbundet mörkgrönt konstläderband med guldfärgad pärmdekor och ryggtext, grönt läsband, rikt illustrerad i sv/v och med flera planschsidor i färg. SAMLINGSVOLYM bestående av 5 böcker, varje bokdel avslutas med en författarpresentation.
First edition of Collectors Library contents:
IN THE FRAME by Dick Francis - Charles Todd makes a living as a painter of horses. However someone is making a fortune forging paintings by the masters and then selling them to people who usually end up dead. Charles arrives in Australia to investigate and is immediately on the trail of the fraudsters. (122 pages)
BAKER'S HAWK by Jack Bickham - Billy Baker's desire to save a young hawk and train him leads him into a friendship with the town's "crazy man" and to a better understanding of his father. (110 pages)
BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES by David Niven - a memoir of the golden years of Hollywood c. 1930 - 1959 by actor David Niven who also proves he is no mean author with some marvelous anecdotes and stories that establish him as a raconteur of the first order. (66 pages)
LORD OF THE FAR ISLAND by Victoria Holt - older Gothic mystery/romance about Ellen Kellaway, a poor orphaned relative taken in by wealthier relatives, who never let her forget her place. (128 pages)
THE HESSIAN by Howard Fast - a story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. At the heart of the story is a Quaker family, who hide the boy after his landing party has been killed in an ambush. (74 pages)
// Pärmarna har diskreta hanteringsspår, inlagan är naturligt något gulnad men fin, osäker på om något skyddsomslag hör till utgåvan. Bilden avser den aktuella boken. Utnyttja gärna inrikes ENHETSFRAKTEN för beställning av flera av mina böcker samtidigt. [1331]