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Heading:
Author: Wolff, Tobias
Title: Ugly Rumours
Place Published: London
Publisher:Allen & Unwin
Date Published: [1975]
Description:

Boards, dust jacket. First Edition.

Wolff's first novel, concerning a Special Forces lieutenant and a sergeant serving as advisors to a Vietnamese Infantry Division. Ugly Rumours was never published in the United States and Wolff has refused to list it among his "previous publications."

Condition

Front panel of jacket creased and with a short tear; volume fine.

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