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BLOCK, LAWRENCE AND HAROLD KING - Code of Arms

Title: Code of Arms
Description: New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399900292. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light, but noticeable rubbing to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some beginning edge wear and nicking to the spine end and there is one very beginning semi-closed edge tear to the bottom front edge of the dust jacket. "It is 1940. The British, having survived Dunkirk, are braced for the invasion of their homeland that is surely coming. Unquestionablely, their heroic stand is doomed in the face of an enemy whose superiority crushed the armies of three countries in less than thirty days. But there is a man in Europe destined to challenge the course of history." "Block's most famous creation, the ever-evolving Matthew Scudder, was introduced in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop working as an unlicensed private investigator in Hell's Kitchen. Originally published as paperbacks, the early novels are interchangeable; the second and third entries—In the Midst of Death (1976) and Time to Murder and Create (1977) —were written in the opposite order. 1982's 8 Million Ways to Die (filmed in 1986 by Hal Ashby, with unpopular results) breaks from that trend, concluding with Scudder introducing himself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The series was set to end on that note, but an idle promise Block had made to supply an editor friend with an original Scudder short resulted in "By the Dawn's Early Light", a story set during the character's drinking days, but told from the perspective of a recovering alcoholic. Block expanded on that with 1986's When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (named for a line in a song by folk singer Dave Van Ronk, a close friend) , which proved not only one of the more literary entries, but also a favorite of the author and his fans.". Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0399900292 Modern Fiction First Editions Lawrence Block Harold King Adventure Suspense War Fiction World War II Britian Modern Fiction Firsts

Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 33917

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