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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
de BLOCK LAWRENCE
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Robert Hale, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Publishers original black cloth with silver titles to the spine. Minor foxing to the top edge and pushing at the spine tips otherwise a near fine copy. The VG (or better) D/W (priced £6.50 net to the inside flap as called for) is lightly rubbed and creased with the pink spine lettering just faded a touch. Scarce in the UK edition. A Bernie Rhodenbarr novel. Signed by the author in blue ink on the title page. Provenance: From the authors own collection. Scarce with these attributes.
Sinopsis
Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question . . . but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One!Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library.The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer -- before he's booked for Murder One.
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- Librería
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 355490717331
- Título
- The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
- Autor
- BLOCK LAWRENCE
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Dust Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Robert Hale
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1981
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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Sobre el vendedor
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Leicester
Sobre James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
