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Flood.
by Vachss, Andrew
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: beige binding with navy blue cloth at the spine; handling soil on the edges of the text block; rubbing along
- ISBN 10
- 0917657438
- ISBN 13
- 9780917657436
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Donald I Fine Books, 1985.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: beige binding with navy blue cloth at the spine; handling soil on the edges of the text block; rubbing along the top and bottom edges; a Fair book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (9.5 inches tall) . Description: Dust jacket design by John Sposato. This is the first novel in the Burke series, and was the author's first novel.
Synopsis
Andrew Vachss, an attorney in private practice specializing in juvenile justice and child abuse, is the country’s best recognized and most widely sought after spokesperson on crimes against children. He is also a bestselling novelist and short story writer, whose works include Flood (1985), the novel which first introduced Vachss’ series character Burke, Strega (1987), Choice of Evil (1999), and Dead and Gone (2000). His short stories have appeared in Esquire , Playboy , and The Observer , and he is a contributor to ABA Journal , Journal of Psychohistory , New England Law Review , The New York Times , and Parade . Vachss has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and a professional organizer. He was the director of an urban migrants re-entry center in Chicago and another for ex-cons in Boston. After managing a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders, he published his first book, a textbook, about the experience. He was also deeply involved in the relief effort in Biafra, now Nigeria. For ten years, Vachss’ law practice combined criminal defense with child protection, until, with the success of his novels, it segued exclusively into the latter, which is his passion. Vachss calls the child protective movement “a war,” and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065731
- Title
- Flood.
- Author
- Vachss, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: beige binding with navy blue cloth at the spine; handling soil on the edges of the text block; rubbing along
- Edition
- 1st Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0917657438
- ISBN 13
- 9780917657436
- Publisher
- Donald I Fine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1985.
- Pages
- 341 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (9.5 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
The Bookworm
Books over two pounds being sent by Priority Mail will be shipped at cost. International shipments are at cost. We use flat rate envelopes when possible. Return for refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
The Bookworm
Biblio member since 2003
Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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