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In the Company of Eagles Gann, Ernest K. London Companion Book Club 1968 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Leatherette Fine No Jacket 5 x 7.5" 270pp - It's Spring 1917 on WWI's Western Front. French pilot, Paul Chamay, sees German pilot shoot down a French Caudron. He sees the French pilot, Raymonde LaFrenier, climb out onto the wing to escape the flames, and the German pilot shoot him in the face from point-blank range. Chamay swears revenge because the dead Frenchman was a longtime friend of his. Deluxe CBC cover style in green leatherette with gilt rules to front and rear boards and gilt titles and "bands" to the spine. Book is immaculate. Price: 8.50 GBP
Of Good and Evil Gann, Ernest K. London Companion Book Club 1965 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Cloth Very Good + No Jacket 271pp - A day in the life of the San Francisco cop shop. Standard CBC cover style in black cloth with gilt titles in a scarlet oval to the spine. Book is immaculate. Price: 5.95 GBP
The Trouble with Lazy Ethel Gann, Ernest K. London Companion Book Club 1960 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Cloth Very Good No Jacket 255pp - The trouble with Lazy Ethel (a hurricane) is that she doesn't exist. But the residents and other visitors to the small Pacific atoll being visited by the hack who broke the story of Lazy Ethel's approach don't know that. Standard CBC cover style in orange cloth with gilt titles in a maroon oval to the spine, is slightly faded at the spine. Book is clean and tight except for slight soiling of page edges. Price: 5.95 GBP
Twilight for the Gods Gann, Ernest K. London Companion Book Club 1958 Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Cloth Very Good + No Jacket 272pp - Skippered by a loser of a captain, dismissed from the Navy a while earlier and now drinking his way to oblivion, a run-down loser of a schooner in the Pacific sets sail on a voyage to Mexico. On board is a group of various and varied losers. Not surprisingly, en route the ship begins to sink and it's up to this bunch of losers to cope, or not. Been likened to the movie Grand Hotel and to John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus.. Standard CBC cover style in soiled orange cloth with gilt titles in a brown oval to the soiled spine. Textblock is immaculate. Price: 6.75 GBP
