Violent Ward

by Len Deighton, born 1929

£45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Harper Collins, 1993. Thriller FIRST EDITION. Octavo 24 x 15cm , pp. x ; 305; 5 , blank. Publisher's black hardcover cloth spine blocked in gilt and paper boards, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 23 to front flap. Page edges and spine gently toned else a crisp, clean, fine copy. A picaresque legal thriller set in riot-torn South Central Los Angeles. From the library of Deighton's biographer Edward Milward-Oliver, purchased directly by ourselves.

• Binding: Hardcover

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