The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Block, Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0525941592
- ISBN 13
- 9780525941590
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525941592 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; In this hilarious and whimsical novel, a burglar named Frank who likes to quote Kipling learns the error of his ways when he falls in love with a wealthy woman.; A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery; 8vo .
Synopsis
Bookseller and thief Bernie Rhodenbarr can’t resist the lure of a long lost Kipling poem, even if it is locked inside a millionaire’s high security library. So Bernie goes browsing and sure enough he liberates the object in question . . . but also finds a dead redhead and is caught with the proverbial smoking gun by those boys in blue, who are ready to book Bernie for Murder One!Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's library.The heist goes off without a hitch. The delivery of the ill-gotten volume, however, is a different story. Drugged by the client's female go-between, Bernie wakes up in her apartment to find the book gone, the lady dead, a smoking gun in his hand, and the cops at the door. And suddenly he's got to extricate himself from a rather sticky real-life murder mystery and find a killer -- before he's booked for Murder One.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16242
- Title
- The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Block, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525941592
- ISBN 13
- 9780525941590
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
- Bookseller catalogs
- Author Collections / Block, Lawrence;
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