Sunburn
by Laurence Shames (1951- )
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0786860685
- ISBN 13
- 9780786860685
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
279 pages. Royal octavo (9 21/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter green cloth with red lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition,
When aging Mafia godfather Vincente Delgatto heads to Key West to visit his son out-of-wedlock, his biggest worry is sunburn. But it's other people who get burned. Like the Key West reporter who befriends the old man and helps him write his memoirs, a book that absolutely no one wants to see published. .
Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1343
- Title
- Sunburn
- Author
- Laurence Shames (1951- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0786860685
- ISBN 13
- 9780786860685
- Publisher
- Hyperion
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 279 pages
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
About the Seller
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