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King, Ross : Ex-Libris

Walker & Company, New York, 2001

Signed by the author in black ink on title page. First American Edition. Original publisher's black paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Original multicolored pictorial paper dust jacket included. Dust jacket has a color illustration of a manuscript on front and back panels and a color illustration of a city panorama on spine. Black lettering on dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 1/2" x 9 1/4." 392 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for a few fingerprints and minuscule shelf wear at bottom edges. Corners of the covers are sharp and not bumped. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is likewise virtually pristine and intact except for light rubbing and minuscule edge wear. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. An As New book in an As New dust jacket. Ex-Libris (1998) is a historical novel by Ross King (b. 1962), a Canadian author. King has written both fictional and nonfictional works. Ex-Libris is a story of thrill and intrigue when an antiquarian goes on the hunt for a rare manuscript. Excerpt from front flap: "A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe, charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war. Moving between Prague and the Tower Bridge, Inchbold's fortunes--and his very life--hang on recovering a missing manuscript, but the lost volume is not what it seems, and his search is but a move in a treacherous game of underworld spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries.". Book. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: As New

1st American Edition
Signed by Author(s)

KING, Ross : Ex-Libris

Chatto & Windus, 1998

First Edition. A fine unread copy in a fine d.w. Reputedly only 500 copies of the first printing were issued: whatever the actual amount the book rapidly went into multiple printings

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