New York et al.: Dutton (Penguin Group), 1999 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, black spine with gilt titles, vii, 280 pp. Spine slightly cocked. DJ has a manufacturing defect consisting of some paper debris under the laminating plastic, otherwise fine; in Brodart archival cover. The ninth bibliomystery about Block's burglar/bookseller/sleuth Bernie Rhodenbarr. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/VG. 23½ X 16 cm.

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: Twin City Antiquarian Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: LIMY00140
Title: The Burglar in the Rye
Author: Block, Lawrence
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+
Jacket Condition: VG
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0525945008
ISBN 13: 9780525945000
Publisher: Dutton (Penguin Group)
Place of Publication: New York et al.
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: Fiction Mysteries
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery & Thrillers;
X weight: 32 oz
Size: 23½ X 16 cm

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Cocked: Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
Brodart: Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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