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Description:
Mystery and Suspense, Modern Firsts, Twenty-one Volumes, including the following Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) first editions: Dutch Treat, signed; Bandits, three signed copies; Touch, signed; Freaky Deaky, signed; Kill Shot, signed; Maximum Bob, signed; Get Shorty, signed; Pronto, signed; and Mr. Paradise; all first editions in very good jackets.
[Together with] first editions of John Grisham's The Pelican Brief, signed; The Firm; The Client; The Rainmaker; A Painted House; The Summons; and The King of Torts; all in very good jackets.
[and] Tom Clancy's The Bear and the Dragon, first edition; and book club editions of Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery, and John Le Carre's The Looking Glass War; all in very good jackets.
Provenance: The Estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
Estimate $200-300
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Keywords
Paradise, John Grisham, The Pelican Brief, A Painted House, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery, John Le Carre, MassachusettsJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
508-970-3293
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