The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1975] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.   Dust jacket is almost like new; some minuscule edge tears and a tiny spot surface tear on spine.   Otherwise excellent. 

Book itself looks and reads good as new.   Name of orig owner written on inside of cover [see last photo.]

Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive.

Based on remarkable fact, and alive with the gripping suspense, surprise, and authenticity that are his trademarks, Michael Crichton's classic adventure is a breathtaking thrill-ride that races along tracks of steel at breakneck speed.