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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel **SIGNED 1st Edition /1st Printing**
by Whitehead, Colson
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Seller
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Romeoville, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED on title page. Personally signed by Colson Whitehead directly on the title page. NOT signed on a bookplate or pre-signed on a blank page bound in by the publisher. NOT signed to anyone. Stated First Edition /First Printing with a full number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Hardcover. Book is NEW and UNREAD , opened only for signing. No marks, no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, not an ex-library. Dust jacket is new, not price-clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed first edition for collectors. Makes a great gift
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
- JLJ Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001640
- Title
- Harlem Shuffle: A Novel **SIGNED 1st Edition /1st Printing**
- Author
- Whitehead, Colson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition /1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385545134
- ISBN 13
- 9780385545136
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2021
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Signed books;
Terms of Sale
JLJ Books
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About the Seller
JLJ Books
Biblio member since 2008
Romeoville, Illinois
About JLJ Books
Specializing in autographs and signed modern first editions, signed limited editions, American literature, modern fiction, non-fiction, performing arts, plays, young adult, and collectible children books.
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- Book Club Edition
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- First Edition
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