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Death Is a Lonely Business (SIGNED)
by Bradbury, Ray
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394547020
- ISBN 13
- 9780394547022
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1985 Uncorrected Proof. INSCRIBED BY BRADBURY on the title page, "Harlan! Ray Bradbury 6/26/96". NFine in publisher's orange wrappers. Slightly sunned along the spine and a one-eighth-inch tear on the top edge. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine.
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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- Seller
- HK Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 3732
- Title
- Death Is a Lonely Business (SIGNED)
- Author
- Bradbury, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394547020
- ISBN 13
- 9780394547022
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- FICTION MYSTERY DETECTIVE HARD BOILED SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction and Fantasy;
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