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Black Leopard Red Wolf Cloth - 2019

by Marlon James

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first

Description

New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Marlon James on the title page with a silver Sharpie. Unread book is Near Fine. Tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Light bumps to top corners and crease to spine tail. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) and Near Fine. Faint rubbing and a tiny bump to the bottom of the back panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover. 620 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. Book one in the Dark Star trilogy. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard.
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Details

  • Title Black Leopard Red Wolf
  • Author Marlon James
  • Binding Cloth
  • Edition First Edition / First Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 620
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
  • Date 2019
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3824
  • ISBN 9780735220171 / 0735220174
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.5 in (23.88 x 15.49 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Adventure stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018035102
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/2018, Page 39
  • BookPage, 02/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2018, Page 40
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2019, Page 68
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/01/2018, Page 41
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/26/2018, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/03/2019, Page 0

About the author

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.