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When the Bough Breaks
by Jonathan Kellerman
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689115199
- ISBN 13
- 9780689115196
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Uncorrected proof copy; signed by author; association copy. Very Good softcover. Orange thin card covers with black text on front cover. Clean covers and spine but for small scuffed area at front cover top fore corner; faintly creased at front cover top fore corner; tightly bound; inscribed on title page '4-30-87 To | Kate - | with secondary| thanks | to R.B. Parker' with author signature below; bright, crisp, clean interior. 8vo, 272 pp. Laid in is typed signed letter on Atheneum letterhead, signed by editor, to Robert B. Parker dated August 31 1984 presenting book proofs and requesting promo blurb comment from Parker for new author. Inscription was to Kate Mattes, owner of a prominent Boston area bookstore and collaborator and friend of Parkers.
Synopsis
Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world’s most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to more than thirty bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives . With his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored the bestsellers Double Homicide and Capital Crimes . He is the author of numerous essays, short stories, scientific articles, two children’s books, and three volumes of psychology, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children, as well as the lavishly illustrated With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars . He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California, New Mexico, and New York. Their four children include the novelists Jesse Kellerman and Aliza Kellerman.
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Details
- Seller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 19432
- Title
- When the Bough Breaks
- Author
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0689115199
- ISBN 13
- 9780689115196
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE; COLLECTABLE; AUTHORS; WRITERS; MYSTERIES; SLEUTHS; DETECTIVES; CRIME; COPS; MURDER; WHODUNIT; ALEX DELAWARE; FICTION; PSYCHOLOGIST; CALIFORNIA; MYSTERY & DETECTIVE; URBAN; ARC; ADVANCED REVIEW COPY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Mystery;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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