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Wilde West
by Walter Satterthwait (1946-2020)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312059973
- ISBN 13
- 9780312059972
- Seller
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About This Item
374 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition.
Though a world-renowned dandy, Oscar Wilde is not too refined for Colorado. As he travels across America on the lecture circuit, the famously witty playwright has found much to love about the western states. Whiskey, saloons, and friendly conversation with notables like John "Doc" Holliday - Wilde loves it all. There is even, in every town his entourage visits, a sensational murder. In the nights after Wilde gives his talks, a man with a knife goes lurking in the back alleys and red-light districts of these dusty western towns. Each morning, the police find the remains of a savagely murdered prostitute. Booze-addled detective Earl Grigsby is tracking the killer, and suspects Wilde may be the one with blood on his hands. If he ever wants to leave America, Wilde will have to use his wit to unmask the savage killer.
Condition: Signed on the title else fine in like jacket.
Though a world-renowned dandy, Oscar Wilde is not too refined for Colorado. As he travels across America on the lecture circuit, the famously witty playwright has found much to love about the western states. Whiskey, saloons, and friendly conversation with notables like John "Doc" Holliday - Wilde loves it all. There is even, in every town his entourage visits, a sensational murder. In the nights after Wilde gives his talks, a man with a knife goes lurking in the back alleys and red-light districts of these dusty western towns. Each morning, the police find the remains of a savagely murdered prostitute. Booze-addled detective Earl Grigsby is tracking the killer, and suspects Wilde may be the one with blood on his hands. If he ever wants to leave America, Wilde will have to use his wit to unmask the savage killer.
Condition: Signed on the title else fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1237
- Title
- Wilde West
- Author
- Walter Satterthwait (1946-2020)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312059973
- ISBN 13
- 9780312059972
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 374 pages.
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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