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The Bernini Bust : A Flavia di Stefano Mystery
by Pears, Iain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Fine jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151118302
- ISBN 13
- 9780151118304
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1992. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($19.95). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a library discard. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are bright white, fresh, crisp and unmarked. Hardcover. The author's third Flavia di Stefano mystery. First American printing with "First U. S. edition" so stated and complete letter sequence (ABCDE) on the copyright page. Bound in the original blue boards with a blue cloth spine stamped in shiny silver. From the Dust Jacket: "British art historian Jonathan Argyll has just sold a minor Titian to an American museum for a highly inflated price. But as he complacently awaits his check in the California sunshine, trouble erupts: the museum's billionaire owner is murdered… and a Bernini bust… is missing. This calls for help from his friends General Bottando and Flavia di Stefano of the Italian National Art Theft Squad…". First printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine jacket. Illus. by Chung, Michael (jacket art) . 8vo. 192pp.
Synopsis
Iain Pears was born in 1955. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist, an art historian, and a television consultant in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of seven highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects, as well as the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost He lives in Oxford, England.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016002
- Title
- The Bernini Bust : A Flavia di Stefano Mystery
- Author
- Pears, Iain
- Illustrator
- Chung, Michael (jacket art)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine jacket
- Edition
- First printing of the First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151118302
- ISBN 13
- 9780151118304
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art / Fine Arts / Arts & Crafts; Mystery / Crime Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo. 192pp
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