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Strega
by Andrew Henry Vachss (1942-2021)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394559371
- ISBN 13
- 9780394559377
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
293 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with red gilt lettering to spine over beige boards with gilt title to cover in original pictorial jacket. Signed by the author. First edition.
Strega is a hardboiled detective novel written by American author and attorney Andrew Vachss, first published in 1987. The story features the pursuit and destruction by the protagonist Burke, an ex-con private investigator, of a pedophile ring involved in trading child pornography via telephone modems. The novel was written and published long before social concern over the use of the Internet for spreading or trading child pornography became widespread. It is the second novel in the Burke Series.
The novel is also significant because it introduces numerous characters who would go on to appear in all of the Burke series: Immaculata (Max's girlfriend and later mother to Flower); rescued child prostitute Terry (who would become Mole and Michelle's son); and Wolfe, who is serving as an Assistant District Attorney when the events in this story take place.
Condition: Signed on title page. Jacket with light edge wear else near fine in like jacket.
Strega is a hardboiled detective novel written by American author and attorney Andrew Vachss, first published in 1987. The story features the pursuit and destruction by the protagonist Burke, an ex-con private investigator, of a pedophile ring involved in trading child pornography via telephone modems. The novel was written and published long before social concern over the use of the Internet for spreading or trading child pornography became widespread. It is the second novel in the Burke Series.
The novel is also significant because it introduces numerous characters who would go on to appear in all of the Burke series: Immaculata (Max's girlfriend and later mother to Flower); rescued child prostitute Terry (who would become Mole and Michelle's son); and Wolfe, who is serving as an Assistant District Attorney when the events in this story take place.
Condition: Signed on title page. Jacket with light edge wear else near fine in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1242
- Title
- Strega
- Author
- Andrew Henry Vachss (1942-2021)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394559371
- ISBN 13
- 9780394559377
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 293 pages
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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