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THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
by Block, Lawrence
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0525945008
- ISBN 13
- 9780525945000
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Dutton, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Bernie Rhodenbarr attempts to retrieve the lost letters of famed reclusive author Gulliver Fairborn, but instead discovers a dead literary agent and a beautiful woman A Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, Lawrence Block is a four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in flawless new dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] M106
Synopsis
Gulliver Fairborn's novel, Nobody's Baby, changed Bernie Rhodenbarr's life. And now pretty Alice Cottrell, Fairborn's one-time paramour, wants the bookselling, book-loving burglar to break into a room in New York's teeth-achingly charming Paddington Hotel and purloin some of the writer's very personal letters before an unscrupulous agent can sell them. Here's an opportunity to use his unique talents in the service of the revered, famously reclusive author. But when Bernie gets there, the agent is dead . . . and Bernie's wanted for murder. (He really hates when that happens!)Perhaps it's karmic payback; Bernie did help himself to a ruby necklace on his way out. (But it was lying there. And he is a burglar.) Now he's in even hotter water. And he'll need to use every trick in the book—maybe going so far as to entice the hermitic Fairborn himself out of seclusion—to bring this increasingly twisted plot to a satisfying denouement.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024535
- Title
- THE BURGLAR IN THE RYE: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery
- Author
- Block, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525945008
- ISBN 13
- 9780525945000
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 280
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Terms of Sale
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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