Puppet on a Chain

by Alistair Maclean

£38 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Collins, 1969. Smuggling adventure FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 21 x 14cm , pp.255 1 . Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Norman Weaver. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges very slightly dusty, some spotting to endpapers, price clipped jacket is bright, with a little laminate shrinkage at front joint. Heroin smuggling thriller set in Amsterdam; an Interpol agent is on the case

• Printing: first

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