It is Las Vegas in 1955, and plans are underway to construct the first all-black casino on the city's ghettoised West Side. When a gifted white trumpeter named Deacon rolls into town, the city's powerful casino owner Mo the Man Weiner mistakenly asks Deacon to perform a hit on the messenger from Los Angeles. The suitcase that the messenger holds will embroil Deacon in a web of conflicting interests, rivalries and double-crosses. Worthless Worthington Jones is the ex-boxer who plans to open the black casino, with the silent ...
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It is Las Vegas in 1955, and plans are underway to construct the first all-black casino on the city's ghettoised West Side. When a gifted white trumpeter named Deacon rolls into town, the city's powerful casino owner Mo the Man Weiner mistakenly asks Deacon to perform a hit on the messenger from Los Angeles. The suitcase that the messenger holds will embroil Deacon in a web of conflicting interests, rivalries and double-crosses. Worthless Worthington Jones is the ex-boxer who plans to open the black casino, with the silent help of Mo Weiner. Haney is the vicious and feared head of police, who will stop at nothing to find the missing luggage. And Anita is the beautiful truck-stop waitress with a secret, with whom Deacon falls desperately in love. As the Ivory Coast casino approaches its grand opening on the final Sunday of May, a sprawling drama will unfold, culminating on opening night.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0312274645 First edition. First printing. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. Not Book Club. Signed on the title page. Securely wrapped and shipped in a box. Fine/Fine.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Beautiful, unread 1st Printing, tight, solid and clean throughout. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. A very sharp collectable copy of the author's first novel.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. Debut novel. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Bound in black with title and author in red on spine. Las Vegas map on endpapers. Stated First Edition: February 2002 with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 1.18 x 9.56 x 6.52 Inches. 416 pages. It is 1955 in Las Vegas. Sammy and Satchmo are headlining the big hotels-where the casino operators and the color bar say a black man can't buy a drink or a meal or a room. Until now. The Chicago mob man Mo Weiner is bankrolling ex-boxer Worthless Worthington Lee and the city's first all-black hotel-casino. The Ivory Coast is rising up from the dust, on the wrong side of town. And out of the shadows steps Deacon, a white horn player with a dark past and a genius for jazz. Mo mistakes him for a hitman. Worthless takes him for a friend. Anita, the mixed-race beauty he falls for, wants him for herself. And Haney, the corrupt and racist cop who runs this hot desert oasis of sin and sand, wants him rubbed out. Deacon is holding a dangerous hand, and a dangerous secret, spun inside a deadly web of deceit and double-crosses. The Ivory Coast is coming, rushing this sprawling drama toward the last Sunday in May, when the whole town will be black and white and blood-red all over....
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As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1st Printing. Flat signed by author in red pen on title page. No other markings, no bookplate, and in all other ways, as new in as new dust jacket. No remainder marks.
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Dust Jacket Included. Hard Cover. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall. pages. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Tight binding, nice, clean and crisp text, Very light shelf wear to DJ, else Fine. A very nice copy of the First Printing of the First Edition protected in a new Brodart cover.
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