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THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART; A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery
by Block, Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525940162
- ISBN 13
- 9780525940166
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: A Dutton Book, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, blue quarter cloth over light blue boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with inset of Maltese falcon in trenchcoat & woman in magnifying glass by Doug Henry, 291 pages + [3] A Note on the Type. Lawrence Block (born 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-based series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. This is the seventh rhodenbarr mystery.<br/> <br/> Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.<br/> <br/> VERY FINE in all respects: internally: tight, bright, clean. Jacket bright and clean. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love—with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival—until their Casablanca-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: burglary.When he's hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from a Park Avenue apartment, Bernie can hardly refuse. But the occupant's early return forces Bernie to flee empty-handed—and he soon finds himself implicated in a murder. Before you can say "who stole the strawberries?" he's hunting for a killer, up to his neck in the outrageous intrigues of a tiny Balkan nation . . . and menaced by more sinister fat men and unsavory toadies than the great Bogie himself butted heads with in pursuit of that darn bird!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8143
- Title
- THE BURGLAR WHO THOUGHT HE WAS BOGART; A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery
- Author
- Block, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525940162
- ISBN 13
- 9780525940166
- Publisher
- A Dutton Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Murder, death, detectives
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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