Skinman
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Hal Siegel (d.j. design). Octavo, original cloth boards (buff and red with black lettering to spine), dustjacket. publisher's tint top edge, pp 184. Light scuffs to dustjacket, very small closed tears to head and foot of spine. Book very clean, bumped to foot of spine. Near-fine condition in very good d.j. The first US edition, published in the same year as the UK edition. Uncommon.
Novel of suspense and espionage, beginning in a warehouse in Birmingham and ending in a sinister deserted fur factory in Czechoslovakia. The author's debut novel. "Martin Tarmey was born in Birmingham in 1932 and has been a skin merchant himself, which accounts for his vivid appreciation of that city and that trade. 'Skinman' has been praised as an 'unusual and unusually attractive thriller' in England where it was originally published." (From the rear flap of dustjacket.) 'Skin merchant' can mean both a dealer in hides and a recruiting officer. (The author was also awarded an Military Cross at the age of 22 for his ‘coolness and bravery while under heavy fire’ in the Burma Campaign.). Item #105562
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