I always think that a genuine friend is like a genuine antique - you'd go a long way to find one and you'd do anything to stop one getting broken. When an Italian gentleman made me an offer I couldn't refuse, stopping my friends from getting broken meant stealing a very valuable antique. 'Somebody else has got my antique and I want it back,' was how he put it. 'Who has it?' I asked. Without a flicker of a smile he replied, 'The Pope.' If you think of the Vatican as a big church where the Pope ...
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I always think that a genuine friend is like a genuine antique - you'd go a long way to find one and you'd do anything to stop one getting broken. When an Italian gentleman made me an offer I couldn't refuse, stopping my friends from getting broken meant stealing a very valuable antique. 'Somebody else has got my antique and I want it back,' was how he put it. 'Who has it?' I asked. Without a flicker of a smile he replied, 'The Pope.' If you think of the Vatican as a big church where the Pope lives, then think again. It is a complete walled city with its own shops, its own bank and its own armed security in the shape of the ridiculously costumed Swiss Guards. Look a bit daft, don't they? But they're well trained and well armed young men. Well, if stealing antiques from the Pope was easy, everybody would be doing it, wouldn't they?
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Add this copy of The Vatican Rip to cart. $15.32, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Ticknor & Fields.
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Good++ Good++ Dust Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7+"-9+" tall. X-library: date sheet, stamp & Upc sticker on fep. Stamp on copyright page. Light edgewear to book. Dust jacket in a mylar cover and had been taped down to book covers. Printing info line is as follows: "s 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1". Clean text.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Inscribed By the Author 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. INSCRIBED " To ____ with kind regards Jonathan Gash" It is also SIGNED by Ian McShane, who played Lovejoy in the telivision series. The fifth in the Lovejoy series. Near fine in dust jacket, lightly soiled with a small wrinkle at bottom spine edge. Previous owner's blind stamp at front endpaper. A unique item.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. First edition with full numberline, signed by the author on the title page. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Pages are clean. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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