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The Bookman's Tale
by Lovett, Charlie
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0670026476
- ISBN 13
- 9780670026470
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Viking, 2013. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Large, sturdy book, black spine, cream boards, bright embossed gilt initials with ornate border at top front, ornate design on much of spine and lettering in bright gilt, 350 pages plus Author's Note. DJ has vellum background with scene of city and river at bottom front, a color-illustration of eyes at top front, lips at top back, black spine. DJ and book, both As New.
Synopsis
A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries with echoes of Shadow of the Wind and A.S. Byatt's Possession . Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn’t sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Of course, it isn’t really her. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and Peter becomes obsessed with learning the picture’s origins. As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare’s time, Peter communes with Amanda’s spirit, learns the truth about his own past, and discovers a book that might definitively prove Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all his plays.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57372
- Title
- The Bookman's Tale
- Author
- Lovett, Charlie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670026476
- ISBN 13
- 9780670026470
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Books on Books Fiction
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Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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