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If You Can't be Good
by Ross Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688001696
- ISBN 13
- 9780688001698
- Seller
-
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
1st printing; signed by author. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good DJ. Red-orange boards backed with blue cloth, white titles. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; light dust spotting on text block top edge; tightly bound; inscribed 'To Kate' on title page with full author signature; bright, clean interior. DJ is complete; lightly scuffed with slight general age darkening. 8vo, 249 pp. Inscription was to Kate Mattes, owner of a prominent Boston area bookstore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19584
- Title
- If You Can't be Good
- Author
- Ross Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688001696
- ISBN 13
- 9780688001698
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- CRIME; FICTION; HARD-BOILED; PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS; COLLECTIBLE, COLLECTABLE, MURDER, POLICE, CRIME, DETECTIVES, WHODUNIT, TERROR, PSYCHOLOGY, THRILLER, COURTS, LAW, COPS, SUSPENSE, MYSTERY; MYSTERIES; INSPECTORS; ENGLISH; BRITISH; AMERICAN; ESPIONAGE; SP
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Mystery;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Cloth
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- Text Block
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- Fine
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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