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FREEZER BURN
by Lansdale, Joe R
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 089296703X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892967032
- Seller
-
Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Mysterious Press, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In this noir novel, a darkly humorous crime caper, the award-winning Lansdale tells the story of East Texas Bill Roberts -- loner, loser, sometime armed robber, whose dead mom's moldering in the back room. Bill can't report her dead or he'll lose her Social Security check but he needs more income. He holds up a fireworks stand but bungles the job and just makes it to the swamp ahead of the police. When he stumbles out of the mud a day later, his mosquito-bitten face makes him a top candidate for the cut-rate, country freak show he stumbles into. Hiding among the freaks, trying to stay away from the ringleader's luscious young wife, Bill is heading straight for a confrontation with the show's main attraction, the mysterious frozen man, which promises to make all Bill's other troubles seem small indeed. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. The dustjacket shows a touch of bumping at the spine ends, is free of tears, creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.
Synopsis
Hideously disfigured during a bungled firecracker stand hold-up, Bill joins a traveling freak show to evade police. He doesn't stand out too much among the dogmen, bearded women, hermaphrodites, and the mysterious frozen man whose sinister aura seems to link them all.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004974
- Title
- FREEZER BURN
- Author
- Lansdale, Joe R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 089296703X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892967032
- Publisher
- Mysterious Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- CRIME, FIRST EDITION, NOIR, HUMOR, CRIME CAPER, TEXAS,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Humor; Horror;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...