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RLs Dream
by Walter Ellis Mosley (1952- )
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393038025
- ISBN 13
- 9780393038026
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
267 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter maroon cloth with maroon gilt lettering to spine over black boards with the initials "WM" in gilt to cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition. When a black musician in New York is evicted for non-payment of rent, a white woman living in the same apartment block takes him in. He is Soupspoon Wise, a gentle jazz guitarist from Mississippi who has cancer. She is Kiki Waters, a drinking, swearing redhead from Arkansas who works on Wall Street. The novel traces their menage Condition: Fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L0932
- Title
- RLs Dream
- Author
- Walter Ellis Mosley (1952- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393038025
- ISBN 13
- 9780393038026
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- African Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- Size
- Octavo
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