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TIGERS BURNING; A Duffy House Mystery
by Evers, Crabbe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688114695
- ISBN 13
- 9780688114695
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc. / HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994. Advance Review Copy of First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over orange boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with baseballs aflame by John Sposato, orange endpapers, 246 pages. Publisher's reviewer slip laid in. After a body is discovered in the ashes of Detroit's Tiger Stadium, the baseball commissioner dispatches retired sports writer Duffy House to investigate.<br /> <br /> "Crabbe Evers" is the pseudonym of William Brashler (born 1947) and Reinder Van Til. Brashler (born 1947) is an American author and journalist best known for writing The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings (1973). <br /> <br /> Reinder Van Til is a longtime editor at Eerdmans Publishing Co. He has also written Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Grand Rapids (with Gordon Olson) and Lost Daughters: Recovered Memory Therapy and the People It Hurts.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR COPY: Tight, bright, very clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.
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Details
- Seller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 8366
- Title
- TIGERS BURNING; A Duffy House Mystery
- Author
- Evers, Crabbe
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Review Copy of First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688114695
- ISBN 13
- 9780688114695
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company, Inc. / HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- baseball, Detroit, murder, arson, sportswriters, Michigan, arson
Terms of Sale
Borg Antiquarian
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
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
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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