1946, Heart of Danger by Howard Pease, HBw/dj 1st, SPY STORY, VG

Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Heart of Danger by Howard Pease, published by Doubleday and Company in 1946. Overall in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Dust jacket with edge wear with chips and small tears, soiling of white spaces on back jacket, price clipped, and now handsomely preserved in a mylar jacket. Clean green cloth boards, clear spine black titling. There is a neatly inked Christmas 1946 Christmas inscription on first free endpaper, else no marks in 336 clean and solidly bound pages, solid brown top stain. A brief overview from another online listing: "The chief figure is a brilliant young Jewish violinist, with a great career ahead, who gives it all up to become a spy in wartime Germany. Tod Moran, third mate of the tramp steamer Araby is involved in helping smuggle the young spy into the continent, and somewhat in the difficulties of his decision -- An excellent story with unexpected twists." On the author from Wikipedia: "Howard Pease (September 6, 1894–April 14, 1974) was an American writer of adventure stories from Stockton, California. Most of his stories revolved around a young protagonist, Joseph Todhunter ("Tod") Moran, who shipped out on tramp freighters during the interwar years." B131

Price: 60 USD

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