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Very Good in Fair jacket. T4-A first edition (FIRST EDITION stated with numberline "98765432") hardcover book in very good condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling and some chipping and crease on the edges and corners, water soiled on the back, significant scattered bubbling of the clear plastic film, scattered light scratches, rubbing, scuffing and light smudges/stains, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and light cover edgewear, wrinkling on the spine edges, some dent and scuffing on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Includes a laid in publisher's "Review Copy" plate. 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", 215 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Ignacio Never is a nimble-witted sensitive adolescent whose father is a famous and reclusive Spanish historian, wealthy, but close-fisted. The man never leaves his room, never shows his face, and the boy is forced out into the highways and byways of Boston, where they live, to find company and some kind of affection. His favorite hangout is Harvard Square, that Mecca of the modern young, where his friends are the shifting population of the area-students, street people, and hopeful dreamers like himself. One day there, a girl appears, a girl who set in motion a concatenation of terrifying events. Ignacio, who has always sought reality, finds himself pursued by realities far more stark than any he could have imagined. He is confronted by brutal and cunning power; he is thrust into a maelstrom of deceit; and he is menaced by outright horror. Learning by chance of a murder, he must defend himself not only from the killer, but from the demands of an insatiable blackmailer as well. The Queen of America is a story of human destruction-the destruction of lives, the destruction of souls.
