Written by Lemony Snicket. Illustrated by Brett Helquist. 2006, first edition, first printing. HarperCollins Children's Books.
"Dear Sir,
I have no way of knowing if this letter will reach you, as the distance between us is so very far and so very troublesome. This small piece of stationery must cross mountains and cafeterias, in the trunks of automobiles and in the waterproof pockets of long-distance swimmers, tucked into envelopes and folded into swans, in order to make its way to your small, dusty office on the thirteenth floor of one of the nine dreariest buildings in the city. All I can do is hope for the best, but hoping for the best, like hoping for a bat to obey your orders, almost always leads to disappointment."
The Beatrice Letters is associated with the final book - The End - in A Series of Unfortunate Events. The book contains six letters from Beatrice Baudelaire II to Lemony Snicket and six letters from Snicket to Beatrice Beaudelaire, and one letter from Snicket to his editor.
For readers of the Lemony Snicket series, The Beatrice Letters holds clues to a number of mysteries, and answers. This copy is missing a couple of items, as explained under Condition, below, which is actually quite appropriate, all things considered, and provides supplementary bits for readers who need extra.
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Condition: Near Fine. Lacks dust jacket, as issued. Everything would be perfect but...it never is. I suspect Z. absconded with the poster. But it's all too obvious that L. and S. removed their initials from the last page of punch-out letters - the black page that spells out "The Beatrice Letters". Alas, another mystery...
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