Isbn: 9780892965182 - life itself (24 risultati)

Condizione: Good. First Edition first Printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing. Slight edge wear. Text is white and unmarked. Book.

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First US Edition. BY4 - An ex-library first US edition hardcover book SIGNED by Paco Ignacio Taibo II on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has glue stains on the flaps, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), glue stains on the endpapers, some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Translated from the Spanish by Beth Henson. The author is a winner of the Hammett Award from the International Association of Crime Writers and the Planeta/Mortiz Award. The main character in the story is the most celebrated author of police thrillers in Mexico. A mining city has suffered 300 years of oppression which has finally lead to a radical people's government. The brutal ruling class is waiting for a chance to get back into power but the town's police chiefs keep getting killed. The city government decide to ask the author to come to town as the new police chief, reasoning that the author's fame and reputation will keep him safe. He accepts the offer on a whim and soon finds himself in the center of a web of madcap crime and deadly conspiracy. 8.5"x5.75", 210 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Tight binding. Minimal wear. Clean and unmarked. Minimal wear to DJ. ; 209 pages.

dj. First Edition. New York: Mysterious Press:, 1994. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 209 pp. Cover artwork by: Jose Ortega First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Jose Ortega (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). Jacket is present with a little shelfwear, but nothing severe. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. First edition. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Mysterious Pr, 1994. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Book.

Paper Back. Condizione: Very Good. Text unmarked, inscription on inside front cover. Slight yellowing to pages. Slight wear to spine, binding firm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition, First printing. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges are clean. Interior is clean and legible. IS remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks. Remainder.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good in Dustjacket. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1994. October 1994. Mysterious Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0892965185. Translated from the Spanish by Beth Henson. 209 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jose Ortega & Rachel McClain. Jacket illustration by Jose Ortega. keywords: Latin America Mexico Mystery Translated Literature. DESCRIPTION - Jose Daniel Fierro is Mexico's most celebrated author of police thrillers. He's about to become something more. In the graffiti-festooned mining city of Santa Ana, three hundred years of oppression had led to a radical people's government. The brutal ruling class waits for its chance to crash back in - while the town's police chiefs keep getting killed. On the theory that Jose Daniel is too well-known to be murdered, the man of letters is invited by the city leaders to be the latest chief. On a whim, he accepts. Jose Daniel knows what Robert Mitchum would say when confronted by a beautiful amoral woman. He knows how Ross MacDonald might describe an encounter with a hit man. But when it comes to handguns, fingerprints, and dead bodies, the mystery writer is woefully unprepared. On his side he has a fearless marksman named Blind Man, a radio broadcaster who is also a master of propaganda, and an assortment of eccentric deputies. He needs them all. For gunmen interrupt his dinner with a hail of lead, a beautiful gringa turns up butchered in church, and a fearsome killer is found slain in the center of a ring of a flea-bitten circus. Now, in a web of madcap crime and deadly conspiracy, Jose Daniel is discovering the first essential truth about police work. Like life itself, the more you think you know the more you have to learn. LIFE ITSELF has echoes of Kafka, Conrad, and Marquez. It is at the same time a gripping mystery, a raucous adventures, a dark comedy, and a violent and haunting political indictment of the state of modern-day Mexico. inventory #20748.…

hardcover. Condizione: Like New. 1st/1st. Pristine. Hardcover and unclipped dust jacket in protective Mylar shows almost no wear. Text is unmarked and binding tight. We ship DAILY.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. Translated from the Spanish by Beth Henson, cover art by José Ortega, fine in dust jacket, very slight rubbing otherwise a fine copy. "In Taibo's irresistible noir-meets-magic realism approach, wit and politics are central to the narrative. Jose Daniel Fierro seems an unlikely candidate for police chief in the Mexican border town of Santa Ana. A crime writer who has never fired a gun, he's also something of a coward. On the other hand, he's a quick study, a mine of crime fiction and movie lore-and he's alive, which is than can be said for the two previous chiefs of his town, a communist outpost that boasts a colorful revolutionary and counterrevolutionary past. After Jose deals with his first few crimes, the story picks up steam when the stabbed and naked corpse of an American woman is discovered in the church. In her nearby motel room, Jose finds a bloody yellow dress and the picture of a young child. Looking for the killer sends him into the big leagues, at which point the narrative detours begin to make sense. Taibo (No Happy Ending) may scant suspense here, but he delivers on all other fronts, peppering his prose with dark laughs that illuminate the human condition." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First Printing. Book has small droplet stain to bottom page edges, bump to bottom of spine, and erasure marks to front of BFEP. DJ shows very light wear with a diagonal crease inside both flaps.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. Has all the points of first issue. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy protected in a Mylar jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First American edition. Translated by Beth Henson. Faint foxing on edges, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

Condizione: FINE. First US printing. The sixth novel by this award-winning Mexican writer to appear in English. INSCRIBED on the title page ("para John") and dated in 2007. Translated from the Spanish by Beth Henson. 209 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Sturdy book, brown spine, black lettering very fine on spine, black color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 209 pages plus a final "letter." DJ glossy beneath mylar with colorful modern art of face on front, black spine and black borders to back, brown at center back with prase from Washington Post Book World, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, New York Times Book Review, The Nation and others. DJ has three very tiny light dents to front right. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.…

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hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.