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A FIX LIKE THIS
by Constantine, K.C
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0841503761
- ISBN 13
- 9780841503762
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The fourth novel in Constantine's widely-acclaimed mystery series set in Rocksburg, a small industrial town in Pennsylvania, and featuring Police Chief Mario Balzic, this time investigating the stabbing of a runner for the town's biggest bookie and a man beaten to death with a baseball bat. Boards have faded slightly on top and bottom edges; a "shadow" where a small sticker was removed from the front paste down, o/w boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square; a small closed tear a little over an inch long at the top of the fold between the spine and the front panel, o/w a slight bit of wear at spine ends and top and bottom edges. Scarce. Collectable.
Synopsis
A Fix Like This is a crime novel by the American writer K.C. Constantine set in 1970s Rocksburg, a fictional, blue-collar, Rustbelt town in Western Pennsylvania (modeled on the author's hometown of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, adjacent to Pittsburgh). Mario Balzic is the protagonist, an atypical detective for the genre, a Serbo-Italian American cop, middle-aged, unpretentious, a family man who asks questions and uses more sense than force.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004279
- Title
- A FIX LIKE THIS
- Author
- Constantine, K.C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0841503761
- ISBN 13
- 9780841503762
- Publisher
- Saturday Review Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, FIRST EDITION, POLICE PROCEDURAL, MARIO BALZIC, PENNSYLVANIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Crime; Police Procedural;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale. All books returnable within two weeks for any reason. Please return by USPS (media mail rate) and note the reason for return. All sales subject to applicable taxes.
About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....