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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., [1959]., 1959. First edition. First edition. Fine, fresh copy in dust jacket. Basis for the United Artist 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer that starred Laurence Harvey as Raymond Shaw, and Frank Sinatra as Ben Marco, and Janet Leigh. Raymond Shaw was the walking time bomb of this famous cold-war thriller. An exceptional copy of this iconic novel of the Cold War era. There may be another copy as nice as this one, but none better! Housed in a green cloth clamshell case with leather spine labels and titles stamped in gilt.

The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959. The story is about the son of a prominent American political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.

First edition has red cloth cover and 384 pages.