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Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- clean pages, tight binding, clea/Illustrated dust jacket over clo
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Seller
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Slingerlands, New York, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. clean pages, tight binding, clea/Illustrated dust jacket over clo. Stated First Edition, full number lineclean pages, tight binding, clean boards, original dust jacket, Illustrated dust jacket over cloth boards
Synopsis
“Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...” To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver’s Row don’t approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it’s still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those installment-plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace, Ray doesn’t ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweler downtown who doesn’t ask questions, either. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa—the “Waldorf of Harlem"—and volunteers Ray’s services as the fence. The heist doesn’t go as planned; they rarely do. Now Ray has a new clientele, one made up of shady cops, vicious local gangsters, two-bit pornographers, and other assorted Harlem lowlifes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- HGG Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0385545134
- Title
- Harlem Shuffle
- Author
- Colson Whitehead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - clean pages, tight binding, clea
- Jacket Condition
- Illustrated dust jacket over clo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Date Published
- 2021
- X weight
- 32 oz
Terms of Sale
HGG Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
HGG Books
Biblio member since 2020
Slingerlands, New York
About HGG Books
Antiquarian and collectible bookseller specializing in illustrated and art books. We handle both older and modern books, but all are considered to have artistic value.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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