The Club Dumas
by Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine to Fine/Very Good to Very Good Plus
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996. Solid copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Price intact jacket has small chip at head of spine, else near fine. An inventive and sophisticated novel of intrigue about a secret society of antiquarians and the hunt for a rare book of satanic lore. Basis for a Roman Polanski film called "The Ninth Gate" which starred Johnny Depp. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine to Fine/Very Good to Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
A provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers , Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016742
- Title
- The Club Dumas
- Author
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine to Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good to Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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