New York: Delacorte Press, 1987. First Edition. 300 pp. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. Book has very slight shelf wear; pencil marking on title page. SIGNED by the author. Bluebeard is a fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, a retired abstract expressionist artist, who at seventy-one wants to be left alone, and who also guards a mystical secret in his potato barn - until he's badgered by a voluptuous, provocative young widow to tell his life’s story.