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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Berkley Prime Crime, New York, New York, 1996

    0425155161 / 9780425155165

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    Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Avon Books / HarperCollins Publishers, New York, New York, 2001

    038076363X / 9780380763634

    Serie: Buch 1 von 20 - Matthew Scudder

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    Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. Later Edition. Used Book.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, New York, Boston, MA & London, 2011

    0316127310 / 9780316127318

    Serie: Buch 17 von 20 - Matthew Scudder

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    Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. 319 + pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Creased front cover. Stains on back cover. Nineka Bennett (Cover Design); BIWA/Gallery Stock (Cover Photo); Athena Gassoumis (Author Photo) (illustrator).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 2000

    0060198338 / 9780060198336

    Serie: Buch 2 von 5 - Keller series

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. © 2000. 296 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Stains on fore-edge. Dust jacket shows minimal wear around edges. Bradford Foltz (Jacket Design); Douglas Whyte (Jacket Art); John Pinderhughes (Author Photo); Debbie Glasserman (Design) (illustrator).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 2005

    0060198311 / 9780060198312

    Serie: Buch 16 von 20 - Matthew Scudder

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 288 pp. Stated first edition. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Deborah Glasserman (Design); Douglas Whyte (Jacket Photo); Athena Gassoumis (Author Photo) (illustrator).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Little, Brown and Co. 2011, 2011

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition Hardcover 8vo 319 pages Very Good in very good dust jacket. Friday, November 13, 2020 Author signed on title page. Signed by Author(s).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Penguin Group

    1804999504 / 9781804999509

    • Softcover

    Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USAThriftBooks-Atlanta

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    Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, Hagerstown, MD, et al., 1983

    0061811580 / 9780061811586

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    Anbieter: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, USAgearbooks

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Copyright © 1983. 224 pp. Solidly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small stain on front of dust jacket. No publishing year given. Publishing year gleaned from other sources, therefore, it is an approximation. James Stockton (Jacket Design); Nikolay Zurek (Jacket Photo); Sheldon Block (Author Photo) (illustrator).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, 1997

    0688141811 / 9780688141813

    Serie: Buch 13 von 20 - Matthew Scudder

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Like New. 1st Edition. 328 pp. SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!! Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Even the Wicked is the thirteenth novel chronicling the ever-evolving life of Matthew Scudder. Once in a blue moon a killer with street smarts and a sense of theatre will reach out and take the city by the throat. Maybe he'll write letters to a popular tabloid columnist, proclaiming himself the answer to a failed ciminal justice system. Maybe he'll point the finger at the kind of villain the law can't touch. A child killer who got off on a technicality, say. A top mobster with decades of blood on his hands. Maybe he's got a little hit list. Suppose he takes aim at a respectable lawyer. Suppose the lawyer's a friend of Matt Scudder. " One of the very best writers now working the beat." -- The Wall Street Journal. 328 pp. Signed by Author. Bradford Foltz (Jacket Design); Doug Mindell (Jacket Photo); Sigird Estrada (Author Photo); Renato Stanisic (Book Design) (illustrator). ***SIGNED BY AUTHOR!!!***.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    1804999504 / 9781804999509

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    Anbieter: Majestic Books, Hounslow, Vereinigtes KönigreichMajestic Books

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  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: The Mysterious Press, New York, 1987

    0892962003 / 9780892962006

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    Anbieter: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USAHeartwood Books and Art

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Into the Night by Cornell Woolrich (First Edition) A sharp tight copy. Pictorial dust jacket. Now in a clear, protective cover. Not price-clipped. Lawrence Block(Co-Author) Mallory Hattie(Jacket Photograph) (illustrator). Stated First Printing with full number line 1-10. BOOK.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: LB Productions, 2021

    1951939913 / 9781951939915

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    Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes KönigreichRevaluation Books

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    EUR 19,96

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    Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 328 pages. 6.00x0.69x9.00 inches. In Stock.

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Arbor House, New York, 1983

    0877954852 / 9780877954859

    Serie: Buch 1 von 3 - ローレンス・ブロック傑作選

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    Anbieter: Idler Fine Books, Sacramento, CA, USAIdler Fine Books

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Author's first collection of short stories, including stories with protagonists, Scudder, Bernie, and Ehrengraf. Light toning to upper board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light edge wear, else fine. George Robert Haas (Author photo); Robert Silverman (illustrator).

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Dutton / Penguin Books, New York, 1995

    0525940162 / 9780525940166

    Serie: Buch 7 von 12 - Bernie Rhodenbarr

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first Dutton edition. Signed by Lawrence Block directly on the title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition. Athena Gassoumis (Author photo); Doug Henry (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    1804999504 / 9781804999509

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    Zustand: New.

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    Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 255 pages. 5.50x0.58x8.50 inches. In Stock.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    1804999504 / 9781804999509

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    Anbieter: Biblios, frankfurt am main, HESSE, DeutschlandBiblios

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Orion, London, 1999

    0752825445 / 9780752825441

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    Anbieter: Idler Fine Books, Sacramento, CA, USAIdler Fine Books

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first British edition, 71 stories, including three collections previously unpublished in the UK, along with 14 new stories, gathered for the first time in one volume. Signed by Robert Block directly on the title-page. A tiny stain to top edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a shallow crease and a short closed tear to upper edge of front cover, else fine. A lovely copy. Sigrid Estrada (Author photo); SuperStock (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: No Exit Press, London, 1997

    1874061815 / 9781874061816

    Serie: Buch 8 von 12 - Bernie Rhodenbarr

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first British edition, first issue with spelling error at first sentence of first page; green cloth boards with red-ribbon-marker bound in. Signed by Lawrence Block directly on the title-page. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a light crease to bottom corner of inside front flap, else fine. Athena Gassoumis (Author photo); Alan Forester (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Subterranean Press, Burton, Michigan, 2020

    1596069570 / 9781596069572

    Serie: Buch 12 von 12 - Bernie Rhodenbarr

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    Anbieter: Adventures Underground, Richland, WA, USAAdventures Underground

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    Hard Cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. New Book.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Subterranean, 2020

    1596069651 / 9781596069657

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    Anbieter: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, USARecycle Bookstore

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition hardcover signed by Lawrence Block! Book number 130 out of 500 printed! Photos available upon request! Book is in excellent condition with a bright cover, clean pages, a strong binding, and now mylar laminated. Signed.

  • Verlag: New York, 1981

    • Hardcover
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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First edition. First edition. Navy blue boards, silver lettering. 441 pages. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. It is 1940. The British, having survived Dunkirk are braced for the invasion of their homeland that is surely coming. Unquestionably, their heroic stand is doomed in the face of an enemy whose superiority crushed the armies of three countries in less than thirty days. Stanislav Zagorski (illustrator).

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Arbor House, New York, 1984

    0877955263 / 9780877955269

    Serie: Buch 2 von 3 - ローレンス・ブロック傑作選

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    Anbieter: Idler Fine Books, Sacramento, CA, USAIdler Fine Books

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Signed by Lawrence Block directly on the title-page. Light toning to upper board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to inside flaps, else fine. Mallie Mandel (Author photo); Robert Silverman (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: LB Productions, 2019

    1951939263 / 9781951939267

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    Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes KönigreichRevaluation Books

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 260 pages. 6.00x0.63x9.00 inches. In Stock.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Cumberland House, 1999

    1581820070 / 9781581820072

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. book club edition. 408 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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    Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 277 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine is black with green-yellow lettering. Boards have mild shelving wear to front head joint. Signed flat by Lawrence Block on title page. Shelved . 1387246. Special Collections.

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    Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: Dark Harvest, Arlington Heights, 1993

    091316562X / 9780913165621

    Serie: Buch 2 von 17 - Matthew Scudder

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    Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USARoyal Books, Inc., ABAA

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    dj. First American Edition in hardcover, originally published as a paperback original in 1977. SIGNED by the author on the title page. The second Matthew Scudder mystery, shortlisted for an Edgar Award. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. Signed.

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    Verlag: Subterranean Press, Burton, Mi, 2010

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    Hardcover. dj. First Edition. Octavo, 395 pages. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust wrapper. Bound in red cloth. Spine has metallic red lettering. Corners and spine ends are sharp. Text block is clean. Shelved in Hallway. 1416647. Special Collections - Upstairs.

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    Hardcover. Limited Edition #71/100. Octavo, 278 pages. In Near Fine condition with a Near Fine condition slip case. Spine is gray with metallic red lettering. Slip case has small red pencil mark across closed end. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine tail. Signed flat by Robert J. Randisi [Editor], Michael Allegretto [Author], Lawrence Block [Author], Max Allan Collins [Author], Michael Collins [Author], Wayne Dundee [Author], James Ellroy [Author], Paul Engleman [Author], Loren D. Estleman [Author], Jeremiah Healy [Author], John Lutz [Author], Marcia Muller [Author], W.R. Philbrick [Author] Pronzini, Bill [Author] Smith, Julie [Author] and Stodghill, Dick [Author] on publisher's limitation page. Shelved . 1387594. Special Collections.

  • Sprache: Englisch

    Verlag: William Morrow and Company, Inc, New York, 1993

    0688121926 / 9780688121921

    Serie: Buch 11 von 20 - Matthew Scudder

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    Anbieter: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, USAGround Zero Books, Ltd.

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    Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. 316, [4] pages. Autographed sticker on front of the DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. Private detective Matthew Scudder ventures into the dark and dangerous alleys of Hell's Kitchen to track the killer of a yuppie lawyer. Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Block has written in the genres of crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century, releasing over 100 books. The first of his work to appear under his own name was the 1957 story "You Can't Lose," for the crime/adventure magazine Manhunt. The first novel to be published under Block's name was Grifter's Game (1961). It started as an erotic novel but, as Block would later write, "I decided it might be a cut above what I'd been writing, so I wrote it as a crime novel with the hope it might work for Gold Medal." He has since published more than fifty novels and more than a hundred short stories, as well as a series of books for writers. Block's most famous creation, the ever-evolving Matthew Scudder, was introduced in 1976's The Sins of the Fathers as an alcoholic ex-cop working as an unlicensed private investigator in Hell's Kitchen. In 2005 he was honored with the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award. In this city, there is little sense and no rules. Those who fly the highest often come crashing down the hardest -- like successful young Glenn Holtzmann, randomly blown away by a deranged derelict at a corner phone booth on Eleventh Avenue. Unlicensed p.i. Matt Scudder thinks Holtzmann was simply in the wrong place at the worst time. Others think differently -- like Thomas Sadecki, brother of the crazed Vietnam vet accused of the murder, who wants Scudder to prove the madman innocent. But no one is truly innocent in this unmerciful metropolis --including Matther Scudder, whose curiosity and dedication are leading him to dark, unexplored places in his own heart.and to passions and revelations that could destroy everything he loves. Derived from a Kirkus review: Mysteries of the heart eclipse those of the street in Matt Scudder's quietly compelling new case, which finds the p.i. avoiding the wrenching physical violence of his last few outings but falling prey to all sorts of emotional havoc. The crime on which Block hangs Scudder's latest study in angst is the apparent shooting death of attorney Glenn Holtzmann by deranged homeless vet George Sadecki. Despite strong evidence of Sadecki's guilt, the accused's brother hires Scudder to look into the caseâ"which the unlicensed p.i. does, discovering that Holtzmann, far from being a clean-cut yuppie, was actually a professional rat for various federal agencies and may have been slain by one of his targets. Scudder's gumshoeing is dogged but not very excitingâ"lots of phone calls and interviewsâ"and serves mostly to put him in contact with old series regulars and one likely new one, a sympathetic transvestite, as well as with Holtzmann's widow, with whom he starts an affair despite his commitment to longtime girlfriend Elaine: The widow proves as addictive as booze and in fact may drive Scudder back to drink, especially if he keeps indulging in moody midnight gabfests with Irish gangster Mick Ballou and brooding over a WW I poem about breaking faith with those who've died. Meanwhile, in an equally introspective subplot, Scudder's old flame Jan Keane is dying of cancer and asks Scudder to get her a suicide-gun, which he does. Will she choose life, however painful, instead of the bullet's oblivion? Will Scudder resist the bottle and widow and do the same? The murder finally resolves through a quirk of fate: Can Scudder command his own fate? [Readers] will hang on every word as Scudder makes his fascinatingly uncertain way through an increasingly uncertain world. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Athena Gassoumis (Author photograph) and Doug Henr (illustrator).