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Decoys: A John Benson Mystery [Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard Hoyt
- Used
- Very Good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871313308
- ISBN 13
- 9780871313300
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: M. Evans and Company, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: M. Evans and Company, 1980. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Jack Ribik with $8.95 price intact; 203pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, flaps a shade toned, remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, else a Very Good copy overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper, dated 1991 in his native Portland, Oregon.
The prolific mystery author's first book, and the first to feature the so-called "soft boiled-sleuth" John Denson, "a detective for the '80s, who loves screw-top wine, refuses to carry a gun, and holds a firm belief that Philip Marlowe never would have stood for having some dame quote Betty Friedan to him.
The prolific mystery author's first book, and the first to feature the so-called "soft boiled-sleuth" John Denson, "a detective for the '80s, who loves screw-top wine, refuses to carry a gun, and holds a firm belief that Philip Marlowe never would have stood for having some dame quote Betty Friedan to him.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14456
- Title
- Decoys: A John Benson Mystery [Inscribed and Signed]
- Author
- Richard Hoyt
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0871313308
- ISBN 13
- 9780871313300
- Publisher
- M. Evans and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
Terms of Sale
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Shelf Wear
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