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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery (Bernie Rhodenbarr; 3)
by Block, Lawrence
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0525941592
- ISBN 13
- 9780525941590
- Seller
-
Hopkins, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. Bound in yellow boards with a yellow cloth spine stamped in gilt. USED, with light reading wear. Previous osner's name in ink on the ffep otherwise unmarked. Binding is tight. The dust jacket is in a protector. VG/VG.
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
- Walther's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006853
- Title
- The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery (Bernie Rhodenbarr; 3)
- Author
- Block, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0525941592
- ISBN 13
- 9780525941590
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 243
- Keywords
- CRIME_FICTION SUSPENSE THRILLER MURDER_FICTION MYSTERY_FICTION
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walther's Books
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Hopkins, Minnesota
About Walther's Books
Emphasis on First Editions. Many Mysteries. Passion for History, especially Ancient History. Some Small Press or Fine Press books, always looking for more.
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- VG/VG
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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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