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SHORT, CHRISTOPHER: : The Big Cat

LONDON.CHAPMAN & HALL,1962.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. 5-colour block illustrated dw/dj by Jillian Willett; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges,with rear panel lightly grubbed and marked.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally spotted; fore-edge cleaner but lightly thumbed and virtually unfoxed; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Tan paper-covered boards with bright,stamped black ink letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers with no off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-223pp. In sweltering New York weather,Bill Grant,a drink-inspired young man obsessed with The Big Cat,a fearful and very personal deity who he is convinced is relentlessly stalking him,rescues a beautiful girl from New York gangsters and becomes involved in her search for her father,Paul Denfield,the Attorney General, who has left his house in Boston without letting his family know where he has gone to.The trail,through a series of alcohol-driven adventures in the gang-world of New York,in Boston and in Washington,leads to Tom Ryan,a power-crazed Trade Union President given to conducting orgies in the bar of the hotel which serves as his Headquarters,to an ambitious Vice-President,and finally to Paul Denfield himself,whose revelations clear up the mystery of his apparent association,through a little red book, with Ryan. This is an exceptionally lucid and entertaining book which gives a brilliant picture of a man for whom drink is the means of coming to terms with that nagging sense of fear which besets so many of us and which is here symbolised by 'The Big Cat'; it is,moreover,a novel of continued suspense and action,providing,as it does, a fascinating glimpse of the corruptive methods sometimes employed by American gangs and Trade Unions.American author's 2nd novel, his debut was 'Dark Lantern'. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.