Floodgate

by Alistair Maclean

£38 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Collins, 1983. Disaster novel FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 23x 13cm , pp. ii ; 315; 3 ., blank. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial dust wrapper. Text block toned as usual else clean, no inscriptions. Jacket gently aged to spine. Shows well. A ransom thriller concerning a group of IRA-sympathisers and their plot to decimate Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, the major European hub, via catastrophic floods

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