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The Quickness of the Hand - James Mayo
1952 UK hardcover first edition, first impression. Andre Deutsch A VG+ book in VG indeed unclipped dust jacket No previous owner names or stamps etc. Book is tight and square The wrapper has minor rubs to edges, light fade to spine as usual with red ! The authors first mystery book A solid copy For Sale at £12 (approx $24) *p19
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Rayner glanced in as he went by at the rosy faces, the big bosomed barmaids, the men with handlebar moustaches. They didn't want to be left alone: they spent their lives huddling against each other, as though life were bad enough as it was without one's seeking the terror of confronting it alone — warmth and safety and comfort on the littered August beaches, the vast clanging cafeteria, the 3,000-seater cinema. Even the prison years, regulated minutely like a schoolboy's nightmare, didn't destroy their hunger for propinquity: they emerged with greater fear of the solitudes of existence. Rayner envied them. Jail had produced on him the opposite effect. What he would never forget was the five years totally without privacy; now privacy was like a drug —to be taken carefully in small doses |
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