First edition first printing of The Summer Of Katya by Trevanian. Hardcover, 242 pages, published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1983. This is a first printing of a first trade edition and not a book club copy; price of $12.95 intact to dust jacket, states First Edition with number line starting at 1 to copyright page. Both book and dust jacket are in fine clean condition without writing or tears. Slight rubbing to the dust jacket. The pages are tight and the book is obviously unread. 

ISBN 10: 0517548291

Rodney William Whitaker ( 1931-2005) was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several novels under the pen name Trevanian. Whitaker wrote in a wide variety of genres, achieved bestseller status, and published under several other names as well, including Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot and Edoard Moran. He was described as "the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe and Chaucer."