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The Twenty-Year Death
by Winter, Ariel
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0857685813
- ISBN 13
- 9780857685810
- Seller
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Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States
Item Price
$32.00$27.20
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About This Item
London: Titan Books, 2012. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 670pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, stamped spine. Spine head has a slight bump, spine heel has been pushed. Takes the form of three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story (in the writing styles of Georges Simenon, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson). Book is unread, unmarked, unclipped, tight, clean, Brodart protected.
Synopsis
A long-time bookseller at The Corner Bookstore in New York City and Borders in Baltimore, Ariel S. Winter is also the author of the forthcoming children's picture book One of a Kind (Aladdin) and of the blog We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie , devoted to the rediscovery of long-forgotten children's books written by literary icons such as John Updike, Langston Hughes, and Gertrude Stein. His writing has appeared in The Urbanite and on McSweeney's Internet Tendency , and in 2008 he won the Free Press "Who Can Save Us Now?" short story contest. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0003841
- Title
- The Twenty-Year Death
- Author
- Winter, Ariel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0857685813
- ISBN 13
- 9780857685810
- Publisher
- Titan Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2007
Port St. Lucie, Florida
About Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
Specializing in modern mystery, fantasy/science fiction, general fiction, Subterranean Press books, and photography books. Many of these are signed by the authors.
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- Brodart
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- First Edition
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