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DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS
by BRADBURY, Ray
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394547020
- ISBN 13
- 9780394547022
- Seller
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Sherman Oaks, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1985. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. NY. Knopf. HARDCOVER. 1985. FIRST TRADE EDITION. SIGNED by Author. Jacket illustration and design by FRED MARCELLINO. AS NEW, bound in beige and black cloth with silver titles in eye-popping pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED by Author on front-free endpaper to Owners of SCENE OF THE CRIME ~ For Ruth and Al Thanks for this fine day ! Dec. 1, 1985 ! Ray Bradbury ~. Signed by Author. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
Death Is a Lonely Business is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1985. The story, set in 1949, is about a series of murders that happen in Venice, California, then a declining seaside community in Los Angeles where Bradbury lived from 1942 to 1950. The main character and narrator (who never mentions his name) is a sensitive, modest writer, with a girlfriend studying in Mexico City.
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- Bookseller
- SCENE OF THE CRIME ®
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002583
- Title
- DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS
- Author
- BRADBURY, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394547020
- ISBN 13
- 9780394547022
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- SCENE OF THE CRIME
- Bookseller catalogs
- MEAN STREETS; AUTHOR A~B~C; SIGNED ~ INSCRIBED;
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