Paradise Man
by Jerome Charyn (1937-)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0917657934
- ISBN 13
- 9780917657931
- Seller
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
240 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with black lettering to spine over black boards with faux signature of author blind-stamped to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
Though he doesn't know mink from sable, Sidney Holden is the most important employee at Aladdin Furs. He is a bumper, a well-dressed killer who collects the debts that cannot be paid, and Aladdin would be nothing without him. After all, fur is murder. As Cuban refugees flood the United States, the New York criminal class is rocked by the appearance of a Santería sect that hails a young girl as the newest incarnation of Changó, their bloodthirsty thunder god. But after a routine hit, Holden finds the girl cowering under the kitchen table – a divine witness to a double murder. Unable to kill her, he takes her with him, sparking an all-out turf war so vicious that Holden will be happy to have any god on his side.
Condition: Touch of sunning to spine head else near fine in a fine jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L2083a
- Title
- Paradise Man
- Author
- Jerome Charyn (1937-)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0917657934
- ISBN 13
- 9780917657931
- Publisher
- Donald I Fine Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
About the Seller
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