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The Enchantress of Florence - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Rushdie, Salman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0224061631
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061636
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224061631 . A most beautiful first printing of the first Trade edition/first printing, preceded only by a privately published Easton Press edition, in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Salman Rushdie directly on the title page; This is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is also story of two cities at the height of their powers - the hedonistic Mughal capital, ruled by Akbar the Great, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns about the true brutality of power (from the dustjacket) ; 8vo; [viii], 359, [1] pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence.The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers--the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolo Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world's most important living writers.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14589
- Title
- The Enchantress of Florence - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Rushdie, Salman
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224061631
- ISBN 13
- 9780224061636
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Fiction Italy Florence Renaissance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Author Collections / Rushdie, Salman;
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