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The Club Dumas
by Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151001820
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001828
- Seller
-
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing of American edition with ABCDE on copyright page. Bibliomystery by Spanish author involves manuscript pages from The Three Musketeers and a 15th century book of black magic. Fiction but a fascinating look at the antiquarian book trade in Europe and the hunt for rare books. Few creases on cloth at bottom of spine.
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
- Old Algonquin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11194
- Title
- The Club Dumas
- Author
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151001820
- ISBN 13
- 9780151001828
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Mystery Bibliomystery Spanish Fiction; ; movie source book to film
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General;
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Old Algonquin Books
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Arvada, Colorado
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Old Algonquin Books. owned by John and Helen Dunning, was an open store in Denver from 1984-1994. and has been an online business since then. Member: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA).All books with dust jackets have removable mylar covers on the jackets unless otherwise noted. First edition also means first printing unless otherwise noted.
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