Smear Job

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), lightly toned and rubbed, price sticker on the back panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, the last few signatures misbound about a quarter-inch higher than the rest of the text block, with some soiling to the overhanging portion, fine otherwise. The fourth David Callan novel, this story focused on his retrieval of a first edition of Das Kapital annotated by a member of a radical gang.