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THE CONQUEST.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York HarperCollins, (2002.). First edition - A young Latina working as a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles gets caught up in a 16th century manuscript. Full of historical details. Murray was the winner of the 1999 Whiting Writer's Award for fiction.
Condition: Very good condition (slight spine slant).
Book ID: 28474More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CONQUEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York HarperCollins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A young Latina working as a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles gets caught up in a 16th century manuscript. Full of historical details. Murray was the winner of the 1999 Whiting Writer's Award for fiction. SIGNED on the title page. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-060093595.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81077More details Price: $30.00 -
CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE.
Edition: Book club edition.
Boston: Little Brown, (ca 1962, c 1945) dj. Hardcover - Adventure novel set in 16th century Mexico, during the time of the Spanish Inquisition and Cortes' conquest. Basis for the film of the same name. A title in the "Best Seller Library." 474 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light edgwear to dj)
Book ID: 84936More details Price: $17.50 -
SURVIVORS IN MEXICO.
Edition: First printing.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - West's exploration of Mexican history, religion and culture - including the lives of such figures as Cortes, Montezuma, the Reclus brothers, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Dr. Atl, and Leon Trotsky. Although not completed before her death, she left a series of extensive drafts and revisions that Bernard Schweizer has meticulously assembled and edited. Introduction by Schweizer. Appendix with three book reviews by Rebecca West, notes, index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-300-098863.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57564More details Price: $20.00 -
TO THE LAKE CITY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Huntington, WV: University Editions, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel set in 16th century Mexico, which tells to the stories of four women who marched with Hernan Cortes and the Conquistadors. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. Cover by Katheryn Davis. ISBN: 1-560028300.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89981More details Price: $27.50