DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS.
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394547020
- ISBN 13
- 9780394547022
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
KNOPF. NY 1985. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0394547020 . First trade edition. SIGNED by Ray Bradbury on title page. Near fine in near fine DJ. (Light trace of foxing at top edge. Title on spine of jacket mildly discolored. ) .
Synopsis
Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1985. The story, set in 1949, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950. The main character and narrator (who never mentions his name) is a sensitive, modest writer, with a girlfriend studying in Mexico City.
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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7332
- Title
- DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS.
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394547020
- ISBN 13
- 9780394547022
- Publisher
- KNOPF. NY 1985
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0394547020, Mystery & Detective Fiction/ray Bradbury/211
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