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Hurst & Blackett, U.K.. First Edition, Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket. Undated but Copac shows this as dated 1929 and there is no reason to assume this is anything other than a first edition. 288 pages, size 7.5 inches tall by 5 inches. ' The hero, an English ex-officer named Venture, is caught card-sharping by a French marquis. He is subsequently sent to France as a spy by Pitt, on behalf of the British Government....While there he again meets the marquis and his beautiful sister Valerie, with whom he falls in love. Torn between love, hate and duty, things go badly wrong with Venture, and the dangerous living of the French revolutionally era add tense thrill and excitement to the story '. Book - in Good Plus Plus red boards with black lettering - light marking to the boards and light bumping and rubbing to the extreme corners and light wear to the extreme ends of the spine, sunning to the spine but the lettering remains bright and distinct. Contents, browning to the page edges and previous owner's name otherwise clean and tightly bound. Shipped Weight: 251-750 grams. Category: Fiction Classic & Modern Inventory No: 004207.

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