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DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
by Mosley, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393028542
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028546
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED boldly by the Author at the top of the title page, tall 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with bold silver & blue lettering on spine over gold boards impressed with a blindstamped stylized geometrical figure [an image repeated on t.p.], archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped; price "$19.95 USA") with jazzy ~ Harlem-Cubistic painting of a blond with attitude in a sexy blue dress, 219 pages. Walter Ellis Mosley (born 1952) is an American novelist, most widely valued for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins, a black WW-II vet-turned-hard boiled P-I working LA in the late '40s. <br/> <br/> Devil in a Blue Dress is the Author's First Novel and First Easy Rawlins Novel. It won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1991; also the Shamus and CWA Dagger Award; nominated for the Edgar. The classy novel was adapted for the similarly titled 1995 movie starring Denzel Washington. <br/> <br/> SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Very Tight: seems unread. First Printing with appropriate number line ending in "1". Second state dust jacket with unclipped price of $19.95 not $18.95. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
Walter Mosley's very well-received first book, introduces detective Easy Rawlins and centers around his transformation from day-laborer to detective. Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, Rawlins takes on a side job to pay his mortgage after losing his job at a defense plant. His first mystery is trying to find a woman named Daphne Monet, a missing white woman who was known to frequent black jazz clubs. Devil in a Blue Dress was adapted into a film of the same title starring Denzel Washington.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8153
- Title
- DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
- Author
- Mosley, Walter
- 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
- 0393028542
- ISBN 13
- 9780393028546
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Murder, robbery, attorney, missing persons, San Francisco, kidnapping, hippies, battlefields, Europe, african american, los angeles
Terms of Sale
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Borg Antiquarian
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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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