The Hot Rock

Near Fine book in Near Fine jacket. See scans and description. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First printing of the first edition. Octavo, 249 pp. Buff cloth-backed boards with green and gold spine imprint; pictorial dustjacket. A Near Fine example, with an as-manufactured crease on the back board and a very demure bit of foxing at edges of boards, in a near fine unclipped jacket showing light soiling and a small corner crease to the front flap, now protected in mylar. See scans. One of the scarcer of Westlake's rollicking suspense titles, and the first of the series featuring John Archibald Dortmunder as comic-caper protagonist. Basis of the 1972 with Robert Redford and a crew including George Segal, Zero Mostel and others. Scarce first edition, nice example. See scans. L17n