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Quicksilver
by Bill Pronzin
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312660812
- ISBN 13
- 9780312660819
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Quicksilver - First edition hardcover- red boards /gold titling spine -signed by author with just his name and a flourish. Book has some spotting on its edges/ wearing Etc - good - maybe not the most expensively published book by St Martin's press -dust jacket has some scuffs minor tears -Edge wearing and just good to acceptable condition. Spine tight-book unmarked- jacket Bob Korn- printed USA- grading older book can be somewhat subjective pictures included for your review, great if somebody is - a fan looking for an older signed copy of an earlier book. 13th Nameless Detective mystery set in San Francisco's Japantown, where the sleuth tries to trace the source of Mrs. Haruko Gage's lavish but anonymous gifts and discovers a grisly ritual murder in the Nippon Mafia--Bill Pronzini- Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, published in 1971.Best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, westerns,novels of dark suspense.Active anthologist, focusing on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Won numerous awards three Shamus Awards & Lifetime Achievement Award - Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. Book Snowbound - Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere,best crime novel published in France in 1988.A master of the Western novel. Quicksilver "Nameless Detective" mysteries - Bill Pronzini -First edition hardcover Pub- St Martin's press ISBN 1612320813, 9780312660819- Author signed- jacket Bob Korn- Subjects Fiction ' Mystery & Detective ' General B01FEMCYUC - LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order from Los Angeles I hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. --you get the copy you were viewing. Carefully packed...Gift just let me know. Quicksilver 4159 OLD BOOK 37 BLK - HADASSA
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- Bookseller
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4159
- Title
- Quicksilver
- Author
- Bill Pronzin
- Illustrator
- jacket Bob Korn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312660812
- ISBN 13
- 9780312660819
- Publisher
- St Martin's press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Bill Pronzini -First edition hardcover Pub- St Martin's press ISBN 1612320813, 9780312660819- Author signed- jacket Bob Korn- Subjects Fiction › Mystery & Detective › General B01FEMCYUC - LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City
- Bookseller catalogs
- FIC022000 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General;
- Size
- 8.2 x 5.7 x 0.7 in
Terms of Sale
Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
Biblio member since 2013
Los Angeles, California
About Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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