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Blue Belle.
by Vachss, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with cloth at the spine; titles in metallic blue; small ink stamp on the front paste-down endpa
- ISBN 10
- 0394572289
- ISBN 13
- 9780394572284
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A Knopf, 1988.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with cloth at the spine; titles in metallic blue; small ink stamp on the front paste-down endpaper (a raven), otherwise a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket design by Carol Devine Carson; photograph by William King. This is the third novel in the Burke series.
Synopsis
Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire , Playboy , and The Observer , and he is a contributor to ABA Journal , Journal of Psychohistory , New England Law Review , The New York Times , and Parade . Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria. For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065729
- Title
- Blue Belle.
- Author
- Vachss, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: black binding with cloth at the spine; titles in metallic blue; small ink stamp on the front paste-down endpa
- Edition
- 1st Edition, so stated.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394572289
- ISBN 13
- 9780394572284
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1988.
- Pages
- 339 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (9.5 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
Biblio member since 2003
Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
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