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New York. 1999. Seven Stories Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1888363959. 198 pages. hardcover. . Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature Mystery San Francisco. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The narrator of Police and Thieves, Doojie, is a small-time dealer who lives in a garage behind a laundromat with his two partners in crime. They sell dope of questionable quality at reasonable prices. But when one night Doojie sees a renegade cop shoot an unarmed Mexican, he knows that things are about to change. Soon he and his buddies are running for their lives. Fast, ferocious, gritty, and bleak, Police and Thieves is contemporary noir at its best, and one of the most ambitious entries in the Peter Plate canon. inventory #26635 ISBN: 1888363959.
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Police and Thieves Hardcover - 1999
by Peter Plate
Plate's most ambitious novel to date. Doojie, a small-time dealer who lives in a garage behind a laundromat, witnesses a renegade cop shoot an unarmed Mexican, and soon he and his buddies are running for their lives.
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- Title Police and Thieves
- Author Peter Plate
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York
- Date 1999-05-04
- ISBN 9781888363951 / 1888363959
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.71 x 0.81 in (21.59 x 14.50 x 2.06 cm)
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- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-55232
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booklist, 06/15/1999, Page 1793
- Publishers Weekly, 05/10/1999, Page 56
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New York, U S A: Seven Stories Press, 1999. VG/VG. First edition, first printing in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'For ----/for the police and thieves in all/of us/peter plate/'99'. A novel about Doojie, Eichmann and Bobo who are squatters and small-time dope dealers living in a two-car garage behind the Del Rosa Laundromat on Mission Street in San Francisco. Their prices are reasonable, the quallity of their product 'questionable'. Bruising to head and tail of spine; d/w has minor wear and creasing to tail of spine; else a very good copy, in a very good d/w, of an UNCOMMON first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good.
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