The plots involve murder, mayhem, rape, robbery, torture, dismemberment. The characters are gangsters, gun molls, drug dealers, casual killers, crooked cops and seedy politicians. This was the world of the ultra-hardboiled mystery digest magazines of the 1950's.
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Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Numbered. Limited edition Number 150 of 450 copies. Author signature on number page. Pamphlet not included. Covered in mylar to protect dust jacket. Signed By Author. Seller Inventory # 253646
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Seller: Mystery Mike's, Carmel, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover #120/450 clothbound copies signed on the limitation page. Separate pamphlet in back of book "Make a Prison". SIGNED Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. Seller Inventory # 94170
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Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Number 389 of 450 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. A separate pamphlet is encloses "Make A Prison", a short story by the author. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 004926
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Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Beautiful 1st Limited Edition of a scarce Block title. Signed by author on the limitations page. This being number 134 of 450. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. A superior edition. Signed. Seller Inventory # 13883
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Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Miller, Deborah (illustrator). 1st Edition. Limited edition of 450 numbered copies signed by the author. This is number 25. Another short story 'Make a Prison' is included as a small pamphlet in a pocket on the rear pastedown. The boards are clean and unmarked and the pages are clean and unmarked. The jacket has quite heavy fading to the spine and a one inch strip at the right edge of the rear panel. Slight edge creasing but the jacket is otherwise clean and unmarked. First printing. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 018717
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Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. A Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 450 NUMBERED and SIGNED copies by Block. [this being #444]. 24 stories plus an introduction by Block. Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet, MAKE A PRISON, by Block. This is the only edition, their will be NO PAPERBACK edition as Block states in the introduction that these are only for collectors. Sold out from the publisher. Signed by Author. Book. Seller Inventory # 005019
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Seller: Hill Country Books, Boerne, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Signed. Numbered Limited Edition (limited to 450 copies, HOWEVER, this one is marked 0 with a slash through it). A sticker is pasted on the inside flap of the dust jacket that reads, " Cloth overrun, not part of the numbered, limited edition." Supplemental pamphlet "Make a Prison" is laid in. Signed by author Lawrence Block directly on the limitation page; Signed by Author. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 15-9-10
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Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition; First Printing. A beautiful Limited edition (limited to 450 copies, this one being number 268) in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket. Supplemental pamphlet "Make a Prison" in special pocket inside back board. Signed by author Lawrence Block directly on the limitation page; Block's ?rst novel, set in the burgeoning music industry of Los Angeles in the late 1970s, tells the story of a young artist, Stanley, struggling to make it in a city where dreams come true and nightmares are all too real.As Stanley's world crumbles around him, he must put his faith in the music that's keeping him alive and the love of a one-night stand who may be the only thing that can save him.With a bravura and kinetic prose style, Block tells the story of a city on the brink of self-destruction and the young men and women who risked everything to be a part of it.; 8vo; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 16232
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