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The Swan Thieves (Signed Limited Deluxe Edition)

The Swan Thieves (Signed Limited Deluxe Edition)

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The Swan Thieves (Signed Limited Deluxe Edition)

by KOSTOVA, ELIZABETH

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
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The Swan Thieves. Signed limited edition. (Asheville, North Carolina: The Captain's Bookshelf, 2010). First edition. One of 180 specially-bound signed and numbered copies bound in garnet cloth, lettered in silver with a Monet pictorial onlay and endpapers and housed in a slipcase covered in a reproduction of a Jamie Blankenship photograph of a swan and a Ralph Gibson photograph of a female torso. The first thirty copies are reserved for the author, Little, Brown and Company and The Captain's Bookshelf. Folded and gathered unbound sheets from the first edition, first printing of The Swan Thieves were used in the production of this limited edition. Octavo. 564 pages.

Synopsis

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

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Bookseller
Grinning Cat Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
30574
Title
The Swan Thieves (Signed Limited Deluxe Edition)
Author
KOSTOVA, ELIZABETH
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Limited
Publisher
The Captain's Bookshelf
Place of Publication
(Asheville, North Carolina
Date Published
2010
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
AMERICAN LITERATURE, SIGNED

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Unbound
A book or pamphlet which does not have a covering binding, sometimes by original design, sometimes used to describe a book in...
First Edition
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Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...

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