Trouble in Bugland - A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries. SIGNED ADVANCE READING COPY
Kotzwinkle, William; Joe Servello, Illustrator
Language: English
Published by David R. Godine, Boston, 1983
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Condition: New
US$ 85.00
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First printing hardback, an "Advance Readers Copy" with publisher's inserts. SIGNED on the title page by both Kotzwinkle and Servello (with his sketch, see scans). As New in un-clipped As New illustrated jacket (in clear protective cover), 152 pages, illustrated in color and line drawings by Joe Servello. Inserts include a folded color illustrated broadside with excerpt and imprint info, two illustrated bookmarks, and an un-used Reading Copy reply postcard. All are in near pristine condition. A virtually unique and entirely gift-worthy copy of Kotzwinkle's clever, insect-populated, Sherlock Holmes-inspired mysteries. Acquired directly from Godine as a signed Advance Reading Copy when my Hyde Park Book Shop was a regular buyer. Godine collectors see also my "Assays of Bias" signed limited edition.
Seller Inventory # J2343
- Title
- Trouble in Bugland - A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries. SIGNED ADVANCE READING COPY
- Author
- Kotzwinkle, William; Joe Servello, Illustrator
- Publisher
- David R. Godine, Boston
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0879234725
- ISBN 13
- 9780879234720
- Illustrator
- Illus. By Joe Servello
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- First Editions Fiction, Humor, Signed First Editions
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From the Inside Flap
Going forth from his little cottage at 221B Flea Street, Inspector Mantis, accompanied by his trusted colleague Doctor Hopper, solves "The Case of the Missing Butterfly," "The Case of the Caterpillar's Head," and three other antennae-bending mysteries puzzling the populace of Victorian Bugland. Criminal detection, combined entomology, makes this, in the words of The Horn Book, "the most engaging and cleverest reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson yet." Joe Servello's color and pen-&-ink drawings bring exquisite period detail to these tales: steam engines, deerstalkers, fog, and mandibles have never been more lovingly crosshatched.
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