Case of the Hook-billed Kites (Gollancz Thriller Yellow Jacket)

1st UK edition, first printing (following publication in the USA the preceding year). 246pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (spine ends very slightly rounded). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original Gollancz yellow jacket (slightly bumped at edges, patchily and lightly sunned on spine). Author's first novel, set in a Texas Nature Reserve, combining birdwatching with murder and detection.