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Dead Air
by Lupica, Mike
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394542762
- ISBN 13
- 9780394542768
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Villard Books, 1986. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, First Printing. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with blind stamped title lettering on cover, clean black cloth spine with red lettering. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Publisher's remainder mark on top text block page edges (small red marker line near binding edge). Pages are clean, with no previous owner markings. 245 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Debut mystery novel for Mike Lupica, featuring fast-talking, wise-cracking detective Peter Finley. Please note that Villard Publishing states First Edition (as it does here) and does not put a "1" on the first printing (number line reads 9 to 2, left to right)..
Synopsis
Dead Air is Mike Lupica's first novel, launching his new mystery series starring Peter Finley, cable TV reporter. A man named Billy Lynn comes to Finley, claiming that he had been wed to TV network celebrity Peggy Lynn Brady - a woman missing, and presumed murdered by one of her many enemies. Finley works to solve this secret without the help of the police, but as the mystery unravels, the danger gets deeper.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30153
- Title
- Dead Air
- Author
- Lupica, Mike
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0394542762
- ISBN 13
- 9780394542768
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- MIKE LUPICA, DEBUT NOVEL, MYSTERY CRIME FICTION, FIRST EDITION, DETECTIVE PETER FINLEY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery/Crime;
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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