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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