The Venerable Bead [COLLECTIBLE UNCORRECTED PROOFS COPY]
by Condon, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Taos, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Uncorrected Proofs . Large Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is an "Uncorrected Proofs" copy - often referred to as an "Advance Reading Copy" [or ARC] and an "Unedited, Uncorrected Page Proof" - fast becoming an attractive collectible, as it precedes the First Edition. The eponymous bead is not an 8th-century Benedictine monk but a ruby given to anagrammatic heroine Leila Aluja by her second husband, the most powerful man in the history of Hollywood. Leila, daughter of an Iraqi-born U.S. congressman with Mafia ties, starts as a 1970s Red-hunter, turns into a movie star, then a Madonna-ish rock star, then a president-advising lobbyist-lawyer, and finally the head of a worldwide fast-food empire. Along the way she marries a Sino-Albanian spymaster; then the Hollywood agent; next a gun-lobby exec who turns serial killer, and last a Columbia University professor of Irish studies. 294 pages. CONDITION: a bright, tight, square, unmarked, uncreased, likely unread copy with minimal shelf-wear. This handsome, collectible copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.
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- Bookseller
- bookarrest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AL444
- Title
- The Venerable Bead [COLLECTIBLE UNCORRECTED PROOFS COPY]
- Author
- Condon, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Large Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proofs
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- AMERICAN WRITERS AUTHORS NOVELISTS COMMUNISM COMMUNIST THREAT HOLLYWOOD ALBANIAN SPIES COUNTER-ESPIONAGE SECRET AGENTS CORPORATE CORRUPTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Fiction; Suspense Thriller;
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Tight
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