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  • THE BIRTH OF VENUS: Love and Death in Florence. by Dunant, Sarah.
    Dunant, Sarah.
    THE BIRTH OF VENUS: Love and Death in Florence.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Random House, (2004.). First edition - Highly praised historical novel set in Renaisance Florence - in the early 16th century, when the Medici state was for a while under the spell of the monk Savonarola - "A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous . . full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts. Dunant's snaky tale of art, sex and Florentine hysteria consumes utterly---but the experience is all pleasure." (Simon Schama.) Historical notes. 346 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 65494
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  • THE BIRTH OF VENUS. by Dunant, Sarah.
    Dunant, Sarah.
    THE BIRTH OF VENUS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Random House, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised historical novel set in Renaisance Florence - in the early 16th century, when the Medici state was for a while under the spell of the monk Savonarola - "A beautiful serpent of a novel, seductive and dangerous . . full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts. Dunant's snaky tale of art, sex and Florentine hysteria consumes utterly---but the experience is all pleasure." (Simon Schama.) Historical notes. 397 pp. ISBN: 1400060737.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 50090
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  • Elkann, Alain.
    PIAZZA CARIGNANO.

    Edition: First American edition.

    Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An extraordinary tale of sexual, political, and moral dissolution, winner of the Premio Polifemo. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket.

    Book ID: 14005
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  • GOOD BLOOD. by Elkins, Aaron.
    Elkins, Aaron.
    GOOD BLOOD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Berkley, (2004 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set at Lake Maggiore in Italy, featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-425194116.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 66014
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  • DIRGE FOR A DOGE. by Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    DIRGE FOR A DOGE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Italian Renaissance whodunnit." Sixth mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-312-151098.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68561
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  • CURTAINS FOR THE CARDINAL. by Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    CURTAINS FOR THE CARDINAL.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-151236828.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 40555
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  • POISON FOR THE PRINCE, an Italian Renaissance Mystery. by Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    POISON FOR THE PRINCE, an Italian Renaissance Mystery.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-151725403.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 40181
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  • POISON FOR THE PRINCE. by Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    POISON FOR THE PRINCE.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-08409.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 61875
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  • AXE FOR AN ABBOTT. by Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    AXE FOR AN ABBOTT.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Italian Renaissance whodunnit." Fifth mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-74721560X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 68559
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  • BRAVO FOR THE BRIDE. by Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    Eyre, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Jill Staynes & Margaret Storey)
    BRAVO FOR THE BRIDE.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Headline, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Italian Renaissance whodunnit." Fourth mystery set in Renaissance Italy, featuring Sigismondo, courtier, mercenary and sleuth. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-7472-10284.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 68560
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  • THIS ROUGH MAGIC. by Flint, Eric; Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer.
    Flint, Eric; Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer.
    THIS ROUGH MAGIC.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Baen Books, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in this series, set on Corfu in the sixteenth century. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, list of characters, glossary. 822 pp. Dust jacket art by Larry Dixon. ISBN: 0-7434-71490.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (crease to upper corner of a few pages).

    Book ID: 64433
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  • THE SHADOW OF THE LION. by Flint, Eric; Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer.
    Flint, Eric; Mercedes Lackey and Dave Freer.
    THE SHADOW OF THE LION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Baen Books, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set in 1537 in an 'other-worldly, new-age' Venice, a city where magic thrives, a bastion of independence and toleration, and riddled with corruption and intrigue. SIGNED on the title page by Eric Flint. Maps, family tree, list of characters, glossary. 825 pp. Dust jacket art by Larry Dixon. ISBN: 0-7434-35230.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 64432
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  • VENETIAN MASK. by Friedman, Mickey.
    Friedman, Mickey.
    VENETIAN MASK.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1987). Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set during Carnival time in Venice, where six friends have devised a perfect game. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-684187833.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 68724
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  • Fry, Christopher
    A YARD OF SUN.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Oxford University Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The final play in his seasonal quartet - A serio-comedy set in Siena, Italy in July 1946 on the night before the Palio, a medieval horse race run around the middle of the city; the war is over and Bruno's three sons have returned home. Includes a note on the Palio by Stewart Perowne. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-19-2113569.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 30951
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  • AUNTIE POLDI AND THE VINEYARDS OF ETNA. by Giordano, Mario.
    Giordano, Mario.
    AUNTIE POLDI AND THE VINEYARDS OF ETNA.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (20190. First edition - The second in this series to be published in the US, featuring the Bavarian widow Auntie Poldi, who has retired to Sicily, but finds her days interrupted by murder. Translated by John Brownjohn. 337 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 78006
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  • THE NIGHT VILLA. by Goodman, Carol.
    Goodman, Carol.
    THE NIGHT VILLA.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Ballantine, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A novel of "romance, intrigue and treachery" set in Pompeii in Italy where classics professor Sophie Chase finds herself caught up in the mystery of a slave girl buried under the volcanic ashes of the Villa della Norte. SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp plus a reader's guide. ISBN: 978-034547600.

    Condition: Very near fine (usual light toning to the pages, no creases)

    Book ID: 69943
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  • A MATTER OF RECORD. by Gray, Malcolm (pseudonym of Ian Stuart,1927-1993)
    Gray, Malcolm (pseudonym of Ian Stuart,1927-1993)
    A MATTER OF RECORD.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Third mystery featuring Alan Craig, an ex-Scotland Yard detective, now a private investigator, who is the "expert crime solver" on a mystery junket from Venice aboard the Orient Express - but what starts out as fun turns out to all too real a case of murder. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-38524309X.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (minor edgewear to the dj).

    Book ID: 78017
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  • Grisham, John.
    THE BROKER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An international thriller, set mostly in Bologna Italy - "a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life." SIGNED on the half title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-385510454.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 88360
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  • THE SACRED CUT by Hewson, David.
    Hewson, David.
    THE SACRED CUT

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Macmillan, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa- for the first time in decades Rome has been paralyzed by a blizzard and a gruesome is made in the Pantheon - the mutilated body of a young woman is found under the snow. SIGNED on the title page. 374 pp. ISBN: 1-40500049x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81748
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  • THE LIZARD'S BITE. by Hewson, David.
    Hewson, David.
    THE LIZARD'S BITE.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Macmillan, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fourth thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa, who with his colleague Gianni Peroni, is investigating a fire at a glass foundry on Murano island near Venice, a fire that left two people dead. SIGNED on the title page. 386 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 1-405050179.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning to pages, edges of textblock)

    Book ID: 81755
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  • THE SACRED CUT by Hewson, David.
    Hewson, David.
    THE SACRED CUT

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Bantam, (2005). First edition - Third thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa- for the first time in decades Rome has been paralyzed by a blizzard and a gruesome find is made in the Pantheon - the mutilated body of a young woman is found under the snow. Illustrated title page. 341 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped, usual toning to the pages).

    Book ID: 84309
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  • THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES. by Hewson, David.
    Hewson, David.
    THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second thriller featuring the young Italian police detective Nic Costa, and police pathologist Teresa Lupo, set in modern Rome. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385337728.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81747
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  • A SEASON FOR THE DEAD. by Hewson, David.
    Hewson, David.
    A SEASON FOR THE DEAD.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller introducing police detective Nic Costa, "the son of an infamous Italian Communist, and a cop who barely looks his 27 years of age . . In a hushed Vatican reading room, the scene was shocking: a crazed professor shot dead after brandishing evidence of a grisly crime. Moments later, two bodies are found in a nearby church, each with a gruesome calling card from the killer. . . Set amidst a bizarre killing spree in modern Rome, it is a bewitching blend of history and drama, sensuality and suspense. SIGNED on the half title page. 386 pp. ISBN: 0-385337221.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81746
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  • THOSE WHO WALK AWAY. by Highsmith, Patricia
    Highsmith, Patricia
    THOSE WHO WALK AWAY.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1988.). Reprint of this compelling and suspenseful novel, originally published in 1967, the story of a father determined to get revenge on the son-in-law whom he blames for his daughter's death. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-2591.

    Condition: Near fine (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 54078
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  • COLLECTED TRAVEL WRITINGS: THE CONTINENT: A Little Tour of France; Italian Hours; Other Travels. by James, Henry.
    James, Henry.
    COLLECTED TRAVEL WRITINGS: THE CONTINENT: A Little Tour of France; Italian Hours; Other Travels.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Library of America, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of Henry James travel writings in the Library of America series (number 65 in series), edited and with notes by Richard Howard. His travel writings display the distinctive charm of his style, serve as guidebooks and including penetrating reflections on the national characteristics and charm. This volume begins with the classic 'A Little Tour in France', illustrated with Joseph Pennell's drawings from the original 1900 edition. The final piece is on the American volunteer motor-ambulance corps in France, during the first World War. Includes chronology, glossary, notes, index. 845 pp. Lists to this title at rear of book. ISBN: 0-940450771.

    Condition: Very near fine in tan cloth with ribbon marker in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87055
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  • THE DARK HEART OF ITALY. by Jones, Tobias.
    Jones, Tobias.
    THE DARK HEART OF ITALY.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: North Point Press (Farrar Strauss), (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country" - In 1999, Jones emigrated to Italy and the country he discovered there turned out to be far from the pastoral bliss described by centuries of travel writers, and instead he found one beseiged by almost unfathomable terrorism and paranoia. Notes, index. 314 pp. ISBN: 9780865477001.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 42445
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  • THE SCARLET CONTESSA: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance. by Kalogridis, Jeanne.
    Kalogridis, Jeanne.
    THE SCARLET CONTESSA: A Novel of the Italian Renaissance.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel based on the life of Caterina Sforza - the "bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles and took lovers whenever she pleased" until she comes up against Cesare Borgia, the son of the corrupt Pope Alexander VI. 454 pp plus afterword. ISBN: 978-0312369538.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 68675
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  • THE ALIBI. by Kanon, Joseph.
    Kanon, Joseph.
    THE ALIBI.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. SIGNED on the title page. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63266
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  • THE ALIBI. by Kanon, Joseph.
    Kanon, Joseph.
    THE ALIBI.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story of "revenge love and murder set in post-war Venice." Set in 1946, in a Europe slowly beginning to recover from the ravages of war, where a US Army war crimes investigator has come for a break from the horrors of his work, only to discover that in a seemingly unchanged Venice, everyone was compromised by the Occupation. 405 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-8050-7886x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 63161
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  • THE FLAMETHROWERS by Kushner, Rachel.
    Kushner, Rachel.
    THE FLAMETHROWERS

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Scribner, (2013.). SIGNED first edition - Kushner's highly praised second novel (both her first novel and this one were nominated for the National Book Award). Christina Garcia calls this a "frequently dazzling novel [which] thrusts us into the white-hot center of the 1970s conceptual art world, motorcycle racing, upper-class Italy and the rampant kidnappings and terrorism that plagued it. It's an irresistible, high-octane mix . . Kushner's insights into place, society and the complicated rules of belonging, and unbelonging, can be mordantly brilliant." SIGNED on the title page. 385 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 61046
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