About this title: In the city of Coltron, Mike Dolan wages a lone war against corruption. Surrounded by lies, he wants to print the truth in his paper. Mike's friends try to stop him with words, but his enemies try lead pipes and bullets.
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Edition: 1st U.K. Paperback Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth Middlesex England
Date Published: 1962
Description: (cover design by John Sewell) Very Good. Penguin 1759. Covers lightly soiled. Pages are tanned. A solid copy of scarce early UK edition. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, London
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Minor edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, spine is lightly creased and slightly discolored, pages are toning, gently shelf worn, overall a clean vintage used first Penguin Books paperback edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! 172 unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "The city of Colton is corrupt to its very foundations. Surrounded bylies, Mike Dolan wants to print the truth. He quits his job on the Times-Gazette and founds the ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. A good to fair copy of the original Penguin edition of the hard boiled detective story. Biro'd price to front cover and tanning to page edges, otherwise a solid copy. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Tidy clean copy of the sixties reprint of the thirties noir novel about a man setting up a newspaper which tells the truth about the city in which it is published and the citizens. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet Books, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Edge and corner worn, spine is creased as well as the front and rear covers, pages are toning, shelf worn, overall a readable used first U.S. edition! 168 unmarked and uncreased, suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages! "The dramatic story of a daring idealist. " read more
Edition: 1st Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet 690
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good Plus. First US Edition and slightly revised from the British edition published in 1937. Pages browning and slightly uneven. read more
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