"Knock or Ring" 1957 Nelson, Michael

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NELSON, Michael

[255] pp.

Jonathan Cape Publisher

1957

7 3/4" x 5 1/2"

Jacket design by John Verney

Business is … Read more NELSON, Michael

[255] pp.

Jonathan Cape Publisher

1957

7 3/4" x 5 1/2"

Jacket design by John Verney

Business is slow at the provincial bookshop owned by young Michael Ransome, which suits him fine, since he'd rather be asleep or drunk than at work anyway. Unfortunately, there's the small problem of earning a living, but Ransome thinks he's found a solution. Sir Jeremy Etchingham's library is set to be auctioned off, and there is a legend that a unique and priceless bibliographical rarity is among its books, a legend which Ransome thinks he alone knows. He is determined to get his hands on this treasure through fair means or foul, but he hasn't reckoned on 'the Ring', an illegal conspiracy of powerful London book dealers, who have their own designs on the book. See less