John Dunning. First edition, first printing. New York: Scribner, 2004. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. A clean, tight copy that appears unread.
Cliff Janeway is back! The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of Denver bookman-author John Dunning and the award-winning crime novel series that helped to turn the nation on to first-edition book collecting. First, it was Booked to Die, then The Bookman's Wake. The bibliomystery continues...
This edition follows our entrepid book enthusiast and retired policeman to the east coast to track down the provenance of an important book recently sold at auction. Janeway's investigation takes him to Baltimore, to a Pulitzer prize winning author and to a pair of unorthodox booksellers. When Cliff Janeway investigates a signed first edition of a memoir by nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Burton, he becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a lost library of rare Burton material.
