THE CLUB DUMAS; Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto,
New York San Diego London: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, peuse quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over lighter peuse boards, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the back of a shadowy man, 362 pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #8368
ISBN: 9780151001828
Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels.
El club Dumas [The Club Dumas] or La sombra de Richelieu (1993) is a mystery set in a world of antiquarian booksellers and forgeries. It revolves around a book dealer, Lucas Corso, who is hired to authenticate a manuscript of Alexandre Dumas, père, but encounters devil worshippers, obsessed characters, and a femme fatale. The book was made into the Roman Polanksi film, "The Ninth Gate" (2000). The Club Dumas also echoes the author's previous work The Flanders Panel.
EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Tight, bright, clean copy in a comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Price: $125.00