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Damascus Gate
by Stone, Robert
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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SANDY, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Library, 1998. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome brown leather Limited First Edition signed by the author. One of only 1,400 limited signed copies. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges, map endpapers of Jerusalem (front) and Israel (back). A fascinating novel that takes place in Jerusalem with intrigue, history and romance. 500 pp. Includes the publisher's full-page notecard about the book and the author from Franklin Library. In Fine condition but for several very light marks on the page edges not affecting the gilt. A nice copy of an interesting book.
Synopsis
With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemption - and about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind-altering pilgrimage, a race through riot-filled Jerusalem streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze, a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple Mount - Damascus Gate is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities that haunt the holiest of cities and its seekers, cynics, hustlers, and madmen. Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, Damascus Gate is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truth - or some version of it - and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1674
- Title
- Damascus Gate
- Author
- Stone, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First Edition
- Publisher
- Franklin Library
- Date Published
- 1998
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About the Seller
Parrish Books
Biblio member since 2006
SANDY, Oregon
About Parrish Books
Parrish Books is a full-time on-line dealer in fine collectible books in business since 2002. With specialities in signed limited editions and many favorite authors including Ray Bradbury, Richard Bach, Tom Clancy, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey and Maurice Sendak. We specialize in exceptional customer service and quality packaging of all orders.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
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