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PEREZ-REVERTE**, ARTURO: : Captain Alatriste.** [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayer Peden.**]

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2005.

ISBN 0297848461.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but a small,oblique,red felt,ink stroke/dash to top right-hand corner of ffe,but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean gilt+white lettering and gilt musketeer illustrated matt,wrap-round black background upper wrap,design repeated to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,sharp-cornered, publishers original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white eps apart from the aforementioned ink dash to ffe.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 253pp [paginated] includes XI (11) chapters and an epilogue and at the rear a collection of poems(4),plus [unpagainated] silhouetted sword/foil and capital letter 'A' illustrated half-title,a title page,a dedication,an epigraph,title separator page,a note about author at the rear followed by 4pp blanks. In Madrid in the 1620's a man must live by his wits,and often by his sword.For this is a time when court intrigue is high, when the decadent young king has dragged the country into a series of disastrous wars,and citizens live in fear of the Spanish Inquisition.In this political hotbed of hired assassins, court players,political moles,smugglers,and pirates,Captain Alatriste hires out his skills as a dashing swordsman with a mind as sharp as his blade.His adventures are told by Inigo Balboa, Alatriste's young page who is joined by Quevedo,an subversive poet who likes to start fights in the local tavern; Caridad La Lebrijana, the kind-hearted innkeeper and ex-prostitute who shares Alatriste's bed; the elegant Count of Guadalmedina; and the beautiful but deadly Angelica de Alquezar. Already a best-selling author,Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste series as a homage to the adventure books he loved as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers and the novels of Spain's Golden Age.In this,the first of the series,Captain Alatriste is approached by two masked men to fake an attack on a pair of travellers who are stealing into Madrid in the dead of night. But things take a different turn when the Captain realises that this is no ordinary job and is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels. . . Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

PEREZ-REVERTE**, ARTURO: : Captain Alatriste.** [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayer Peden.**]

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2005.

ISBN 9780297848462

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Translated from the Spanish by Magaret Sayer Peden.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap -around black background with gilt+white lettering and gilt musketeer illustrated upper wrap,design repeated to spine/ backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Foot of spine/backstrip very minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,sharp-cornered,publishers original black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-253pp [paginated] includes XI (11) chapters and an epilogue and at the rear a collection of 17thC poems(4),plus [unpagainated] silhouetted sword/foil and capital letter 'A' illustrated half-title,a title page,a dedication,an epigraph,title separator page,a note about author at the rear followed by 4pp blanks. In Madrid in the 1620's a man must live by his wits,and often by his sword.For this is a time when court intrigue is high,when the decadent young king has dragged the country into a series of disastrous wars,and citizens live in fear of the Spanish Inquisition.In this political hotbed of hired assassins,court players,political moles,smugglers,and pirates,Captain Alatriste hires out his skills as a dashing swordsman with a mind as sharp as his blade.His adventures are told by Inigo Balboa,Alatriste's young page who is joined by Quevedo,a subversive poet who likes to start fights in the local tavern; Caridad La Lebrijana, the kind-hearted innkeeper and ex-prostitute who shares Alatriste's bed; the elegant Count of Guadalmedina; and the beautiful but deadly Angelica de Alquezar. Already a best-selling author,Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste series as a homage to the adventure books he loved as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers and the novels of Spain's Golden Age. In this,the first of the series,Captain Alatriste is approached by two masked men to fake an attack on a pair of travellers who are stealing into Madrid in the dead of night. But things take a different turn when the Captain realises that this is no ordinary job and is part of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels. . . Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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