NY: Ballantine Books, 2007. First edition. Advance issue. Glossy stapled pictoral wraps. 32pp on glossy stock. Illustrated by Gary Gianni. Signed by Chabon on the title page. Cover art differs from the eventual dustjacket art. Rear wrap corner wrinkle and small rub on front panel; unread copy in Near Fine condition. Contains Chapter one. Previously serialized in "The New York Times Magazine." The trade edition contains new material.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued. Illus. by Gary Gianni. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Issue.

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Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories--in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales.They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can--as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances.None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there--along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of--will be much more than half the fun.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8097
Title: GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD
Author: Chabon, Michael
Illustrator: Gary Gianni
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Not Issued
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0345501748
ISBN 13: 9780345501745
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 2007
Keywords: Signed Advance Issue
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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