Book #17553

Devil in a Blue Dress - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Walter Mosley
Book #17553 Devil in a Blue Dress - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Walter Mosley.
Devil in a Blue Dress - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
ISBN: 0393028542

A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition with one minute spot on front board in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Walter Mosley directly on the title page.

Walter Mosley's debut Easy Rawlins mystery. "The time is 1948; the town is Los Angeles; the hero is Easy Rawlins, a tough black war veteran just out of a job at a defense plant. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy takes on some detective work from a silkily menacing white gangster, Dewitt Albright. The assignment: find the whereabouts of blonde femme fatale Daphne Monet, a singer known to frequent black jazz joints not usually hospitable to white patrons." (from the dust-jacket)

Basis for the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington; A Easy Rawlins Mystery; 8vo; [9], 10-219, [5] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $150.00

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