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BLOOD RAIN: An Aurelio Zen Mystery.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 7th mystery and novel of psychological suspense featuring Roman Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen (the first in the series - Ratking - won the CWA Gold Dagger Award.) Set in Sicily against the backdrop of the ancient city of Catania. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-375-409157.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86147More details Price: $20.00 -
A MURDEROUS PROCESSION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, a medical doctor and native of Sicily, to travel with the princess. The fourth in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, this is an excellent historical novel which portrays a world just beginning to slide into the grip of the Inquisition. Author's notes. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-399-156283.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.)
Book ID: 56373More details Price: $17.50 -
THE SARACEN BLADE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel set in the worlds of heretic and fanatic, Christian and Sarecen, Jew and Catholic, Sicilian and German, in early 13th century Europe - a time of the excitement of the Crusades and of the poverty of the serfs. Map endpapers. Historical notes, 405 pp. Dust jacket by Julian Paul.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some crinkling from dampness to the rear cover of the dj, tear along rear fold, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 38329More details Price: $24.00