The Alchemist

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Very minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Small moisture stains on reverse, bottom. BOARDS: Very good condition. BOOK: Very good condition. Very small stain to outside edges, pgs. 165 - 170. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.


Here on offer is a very nice copy of Paulo Coelho's award-winning bestseller, The Alchemist, which has been translated into 67 languages and has inspired millions of readers to follow their dream. This is a true 1st American edition, 1st printing of the work published by HarperSanFrancisco in 1993.

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"...He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it's full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams "

— Publisher's Weekly

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Paulo Coelho de Souza (born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel The Alchemist became an international best-seller and he has published 30 more books since then. . . .

While trying to overcome his procrastination about launching his writing career, Coelho decided, "If I see a white feather today, that is a sign that God is giving me that I have to write a new book." Seeing one in the window of a shop, he began writing that day. The following year, Coelho wrote The Alchemist and published it through a small Brazilian publishing house that made an initial print run of 900 copies and decided not to reprint it. He subsequently found a bigger publishing house, and with the publication of his next book Brida, The Alchemist took off. HarperCollins decided to publish the book in 1994. Later it became an international bestseller. In a 2009 interview with the Syrian Forward Magazine, Coelho stated that the Sufi tradition had been an influence on him, particularly when writing The Alchemist and later The Zahir. . . .

Since the publication of The Alchemist, Coelho has generally written at least one novel every two years. . . . His work has been published in more than 170 countries and translated into eighty-three languages. Together, his books have sold 320 million copies. On 22 December 2016, Coelho was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 2 in the list of 200 most influential contemporary authors. . . .

The above text was taken from, respectively, HarperCollins publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.
[Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. India: HarperCollins, 1995.]