FIRST EDITION, Marathon Man, William Goldman, First order Printing, 1974

NY: Delacorte Press, 1974. VG/VG. 1st/1st. First Edition, Stated First Printing. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Mild fading to top red stain. Textblock is clean with No order writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($7.95) with chips at the spine crown and small closed tears to the lower front and back panels. (see photos). Lightening to the spine and mild aging to flaps. Basis of the blockbuster film starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. Goldman wrote the screenplay and also the screenplay for his comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, "Is it safe?"

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