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The Eighth Circle - Stanley Ellin
1959 UK hardcover first edition, 1st impression, TV Boardman, London A VG book in VG++ unclipped dustwrapper Ex WH Smith library, bookplate and stamp to pastedown, no others Tight and square with clean contents and boards The jacket has minor edge rubs, very clean Private Eye Murray Kirk was alreday doing very nicely thank you, the last thing he needed was this case! A clean copy with an especialy nice jacket, ideal for someone needing a jacket For Sale at £10 (approx $17) *P2 - free delivery worldwide ! |
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truly," Frank Conmy once said to him, "this is the dirty, beautiful, golden age of the filing cabinet." They were at Frank's apartment in the St. Stephen that night, a clear, cold night, moonless but star-studded. Thirty stories below in Central Park sea lions barked zanily at the sky, and tigers snarled at the siren of an ambulance careening along Fifth Avenue. . . . "The soul is no longer a moth," Frank said later that evening, swashing a bucketful of cognac around in the balloon glass that might have grown root and stem from his hand. "No longer does it nutter high and free, gladly destroying itself at the end in the flame of the unknown. It is a dead bug pinned on a board. It is a collection of facts placed between the covers of a cardboard folder and locked into a filing cabinet. But the sweetest merchandise there is, if you know how to put it together, and what to do with it afterward." Which, as Murray had to admit, was undeniable. If you learned anything from Frank Conmy it was how to get the facts, and how to put them down on paper, or microfilm, or recording tape, so that the customer could pick up and hold in his hand exactly what he had paid for. But that was long ago, long before the Lundeen case was a matter of record. That case kicked a lot of nice theory and brandy philosophy into a cocked hat. If Frank had been around when it broke, things might have been different, but he wasn't, |
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