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Condition: As New
Description: From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from The Black Echo, which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to Trunk Music, based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. And the vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on: from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer the Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form. As new, first signed and numbered limited edition edition, in marbled boards with acrylic dust cover and with satin marker ribbon as issued iin pristine black slipcase with gold lettering. This is #129/150. BUND
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Connelly, Michael; Stephen King, introduction. THE POET. Steven C. Vascik), (Los Angeles, 2004.
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Description: First edition thus: a special signed, limited edition. Number 22 of 125 numbered copies SIGNED BY CONNELLY. (There were also 75 copies reserved for author presentation as well as 26 lettered copies.) The first book in Connelly's series featuring reporter Jack McEvoy; originally published in 1996. Focuses on "The Poet," a serial killer targeting cops who makes his return in 2004 in the 10th Bosch, THE NARROWS [*spoiler alert: Bosch brings him down]. 8vo gilt-stamped full brown polished leather. Housed in publisher's brown leatherette-covered slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine
Description: Full dark brown leather with gilt lettering, design and rules on upper board and on spine; ribbon marker. In brown faux leather slipcase, also in fine condition. Of a total edition of 226 signed copies, this is one of 125 copies signed by the author and numbered (#49). Originally published in 1996, in this special edition the type has been completely re-set, has an introduction by Stephen King, and an afterword by Connelly. There is no ISBN for this edition. A superb mystery, featuring crime reporter Jack McEvoy. In the afterword Connelly promotes The Narrows, the sequel to The Poet, published also in 2004. 459 pages.
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada