Publicado por Mystery Guild, Garden City, 1973
ISBN 10: 0739491784 ISBN 13: 9780739491782
Librería: Blacks Bookshop: Member of CABS 2017, IOBA, SIBA, ABA, Argillite, KY, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover_boards. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. BCE/BOMC. 5.75"x8.5" 512 pgs. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Mild edge wear to dj. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. THE EIGER SANCTION: Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is a art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger. THE LOO SANCTION: Hemlock has gone to England to rest, but his vacation is interrupted when the head of British Intelligence needs his highly skilled services. Jonathan must take over the mission of an agent whose murder was so bizarre and terrifying that no other agent was willing to replace him. His task: to locate a set of secretly made films that incriminate a number of high-ranking British officials. His target: a top underworld figure who delights in debauchery and torture. Facing this threat, Jonathan is drawn into a labyrinthine network of intrigue and depravity. As all the pieces in the dangerous puzzle begin to come together, Jonathan is trapped, almost fatally drugged, and forced to attempt one of the most daring escapes ever conceived.
Publicado por E Yayinlari, 2007
ISBN 10: 9753901860 ISBN 13: 9789753901864
Librería: zeebooks, Foley, AL, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: New. Book is new and unused but has acquired page toning (yellowing) over the years.
Publicado por Crown Publishers, New York, NY, 1983
ISBN 10: 0246120916 ISBN 13: 9780246120915
Librería: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. Illustrated by Paul Bacon Ilustrador. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and one spot of discoloration to the top front panel. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some fading / lightening of the spine and spine joints. "The time is that golden summer of 1914, a summer remembered for its glorious sunny days that seemed to roll endlessly forward until the guns of August changed the world forever. The place is the small French Basque village of Salies." "Rodney William Whitaker (June 12, 1931 Dec 14, 2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several other names as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran. He published the non-fiction The Language of Film under his own name. Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life. His real name was a closely held secret until 1998, when a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman published it." (from Wikipedia).
Publicado por Garden City: Mystery Guild, nd. nd, 1973
ISBN 10: 0739491784 ISBN 13: 9780739491782
Librería: Thomas Books, Phoenix, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Condición: Very Good. First combined edition. Hardcover. Collects The Eiger Sanction and The Loo Sanction. Fine book in fine dj.
Publicado por Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0151555494 ISBN 13: 9780151555499
Librería: Object Relations, IOBA PBFA, London, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd printing (1976). 309pp. VG/VG copy, binding has very slight forward lean, cloth covers clean and bright, internally very good; dust jacket lightly edge worn with a couple of nicks, spine slightly sunned, now preserved in archival jacket protector. From the library of British film director Jack Clayton (1921-1995), although no indication of provenance appears in the book.
Publicado por Bompiani, Milano, 2011
Librería: Libreria Tara, Roma, RM, Italia
Original o primera edición
Straniera Americhe Fiction and Poetry Foreign Fiction America it. prima ed. Narratori stranieri trad. di Vincenzo Mantovani bross. edit. con sovrac. ill.
Publicado por Crown Publishers, New York, 1983
ISBN 10: 0246120916 ISBN 13: 9780246120915
Librería: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book and one spot of discoloration to the top front panel. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some fading / lightening of the spine and spine joints. "The time is that golden summer of 1914, a summer remembered for its glorious sunny days that seemed to roll endlessly forward until the guns of August changed the world forever. The place is the small French Basque village of Salies." "Rodney William Whitaker (June 12, 1931 Dec 14, 2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved best-seller status, and published under several other names as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran. He published the non-fiction The Language of Film under his own name. Between 1972 and 1983, five of his novels sold more than a million copies each. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer." Whitaker adamantly avoided publicity for most of his life. His real name was a closely held secret until 1998, when a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman published it.".
Publicado por Crown Publishers, Inc, New York, 1973
Librería: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. a Fine copy in yellow cloth stamped in green, in a Fine glossy laminated orange dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with shallow crease to rear flap, and tiny rubs to spine-points. 282pp. The second novel by Trevanian, featuring the same hero Jonathan Hemlock. Q15974.
Publicado por Universal Studios, Universal City, 1975
Librería: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Manuscrito
Collection of five vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. Based on Trevanian's 1972 novel, wherein an art historian, mountain climber, and former government assassin is blackmailed into executing one last kill, to be performed during an ascent of the Eiger's north face in Switzerland. Set and shot on location on the Eiger, with sequences filmed in Monument Valley and Zion National Park in the US. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Publicado por Cinema International, London, 1975
Librería: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Clint Eastwood and a cameraman on location for the 1975 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Trevanian's 1972 novel, about an art historian, mountain climber, and former government assassin who is blackmailed into executing one last kill, to be performed during an ascent of the Eiger north face in Switzerland. Set and shot on location on the Eiger, with sequences filmed in Monument Valley and Zion National Park in the US. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine.