THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE
by Goldberg, Lee
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1594143722
- ISBN 13
- 9781594143724
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink. Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who spends his nights in a guard shack outside a gated community in Southern California, reading detective novels, watching reruns, and waiting for his life to finally start... which happens when Cyril Parkus, one of the wealthy residents, asks Harvey to follow his beautiful wife Lauren. The lowly security guard jumps at the opportunity to fulfill his private eye fantasies and use everything he's learned from Spenser, Magnum, and Mannix. But things don't exactly go according to the books...or the reruns. As Harvey fumbles and stumbles through his first investigation, he discovers that the differences between fiction and reality can be deadly.With the help of his mortgage broker neighbor and occasional lover Carol, Harvey uncovers a blackmail plot that takes a sudden and unexpectedly tragic turn...plunging him into a world of violence, deception and murder... and forcing him to discover what it really takes to be a private eye. Scarce title (out-of-print in hardcover), especially in this condition. New, first edition, first printing copy, in pictorial boards, in new, mylar-protected dust cover. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] L167
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021958
- Title
- THE MAN WITH THE IRON-ON BADGE
- Author
- Goldberg, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594143722
- ISBN 13
- 9781594143724
- Publisher
- Five Star
- Place of Publication
- Waterville, ME
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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Los Angeles, California
About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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