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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CV5-A first edition (stated with numberline "98765432") hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkled front cover, some wrinkling and few small tears on the edges and corners, light discoloration, and light shelf wear. Book has light shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.5"x5.5", 211 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. To those on the outside looking in, New York art scene is the Beautiful People and the Big Rich buying and selling beautiful pictures. But as the splendidly entertaining novel, written by an insider, reveals, a group portrait of the members of this inbred club might more appropriately be hung in a rogues' gallery. It is a world of glitter and of ego, where a Renoir is a ticket to the best parties, where a tugged earlobe at an auction can buy half-million dollars' worth of painted canvas, where an ancient bronze may have been made only last year, where beauty is truth, and truth is putting your money where your mouth is. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, but along the gallery-auction-house-museum axis, it's ten-tenths of who you are. Into this arena of malice, Old Masters and black-tie openings steps Andor, a man of shadowy antecedents and an encyclopedic knowledge of art. He had an extraordinary plan, and with his nerve, flair and cunning it could not fail to work. This would be one gamble in which luck could have no part. In a few days the art season would begin again after the summer doldrums, and the cast in the intrigue would assemble…
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Very Good in Good jacket. First edition. Very good in good dustwrapper. Hardcover, smudge on top foredge, clean text, cover edges very slightly browned. Dustwrapper rubbed at edges, spine and edges browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Very Good. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. 1st printing. Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. Clean pages and sturdy binding, bumped corners. Jacket presents well, has a bit of rubbing. A nice copy.
