The Stars at Noon (signed copy) Interior the political crossfire is bound

the political crossfire is bound to destroy whoever investigates

with a second edition in 1859

Tape repair to verso of frontispiece which also has a strip knocked off at outer margin

so probably at the book launch

edges of spine rubbed

The Stars at Noon (signed copy) Interior the political crossfire is boundNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Publisher's black cloth with the unclipped dust jacket, spine slightly faded. Signed by the author at the head of the titlepage. A near fine copy. Author's third book. The novel follows an unnamed American woman, supposedly a journalist, living in Managua, Nicaragua in 1984, during the Sandinista regime. Having travelled to Nicaragua as an observer for an anti war group, she is shocked by the rampant