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The Burglar in the Rye

The Burglar in the Rye

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The Burglar in the Rye

by Lawrence Block

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ISBN 10
0525945008
ISBN 13
9780525945000
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First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed! Hardcover first edition / first printing. Fine book in fine jacket, not price clipped, Signed on a custom designed bookplate and is author's signature only. Minimum scuffing and edge wear. No writing or marks Comes with Certificate of Authenticity for author's signature. Your books ship to you with protective mylar jacket, bubble wrapped in cardboard box.

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
Elliott Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
EB150040
Title
The Burglar in the Rye
Author
Lawrence Block
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0525945008
ISBN 13
9780525945000
Publisher
Dutton Adult
Place of Publication
New York
This edition first published
1999-07-01

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