THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE.
by Irwin, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670816612
- ISBN 13
- 9780670816613
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About This Item
New York:: The Viking Press,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. An English pilgrim is on his way to the shrine of Saint Catherine to medieval Cairo with an additional task of spying on suspicious activities at the Mameluke court, but when he arrives in Cairo in 1486 he contracts a mysterious disease that causes hallucinations powerful enough to threaten his sanity. One review called this a "distinctive blend of the seductive and the disturbing, its atmosphere constantly shifting from sumptuously learned orientalizing to grotesque erotic adventure and dry humor" (City Limits) Originally published in 1984, this 1987 Viking edition has some revisions. Illustrated with 19th century lithographs by David Roberts. Includes a note on the artist. 282 pp. Illustrated endpapers.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86663
- Title
- THE ARABIAN NIGHTMARE.
- Author
- Irwin, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670816612
- ISBN 13
- 9780670816613
- Publisher
- The Viking Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1987)
- Keywords
- cairo, egypt,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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