The Abyssinian - 8 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Kanada, Frais de port à: FRA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, The Book Scouts.
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999-10-01. First Edition. HARDCOVER. Very Good/Very Good. American first edition, first printing. Contains number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Back of jacket has a stain to top left corner that lightly shows. Back cover also has the stain. Pages of book are not affected. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark.All our inventory is discounted 25% until Dec 31, 2021. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask!

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
contemporary,education and reference,fiction,foreign language fiction,genre fiction,historical,literature and fiction, The Abyssinian : A Novel, At the heart of Jean-Christophe Rufin's marvelous first novel is a nugget of truth: in the year 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the King of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). From this small fact Rufin has spun a mesmerizing tale of adventure, romance, and political intrigue that is one part Alexandre Dumas and two parts Rafael Sabatini, with just a dash of Brian Moore thrown in for good measure. The hero of this epic tale is Jean-Baptiste Poncet, a young French doctor who has been practicing medicine without a license in Cairo. Poncet first comes to the notice of the authorities when the French consul in Egypt receives a secret message from a Jesuit priest commanding him in Louis's name to send a diplomatic mission to the king of Abyssinia. Foreigners--especially Christians--have not been welcome in that country since the Jesuits were expelled 50 years before, and a regular delegation would almost certainly be killed. When the consul, Monsieur de Maillet, hears that the Abyssinian monarch requires a doctor, however, he devises a plan to send Poncet both to cure and to convince the king to send a return delegation to Versailles. Poncet has his own reasons for agreeing to go on this perilous mission: he has fallen in love with de Maillet's beautiful daughter, Alix. Unfortunately, he knows that "within the Frankish colony in Cairo, he was nothing more--whatever pains he took to hide his ancestry--than the son of a servant girl and an unknown man." The only.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, medimops [55410863], Berlin, Germany.
Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Books.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Take Five Books [8590376], Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Translated by Willard Wood. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Bottom, front interior wraps starting to pull away from spine. Books.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, ManofBooks, DC, Washington, [RE:4].
A little wrinkling on DJ. trranslated from French. Prix Goncourt Winner Note: 1st Edition. Hardcover, 1st Edition.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ergodebooks.
W. W. Norton & Company, 1999-10. Hardcover. Good.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, GridFreed, NV, North Las Vegas, [RE:4].
Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks-Atlanta, MI, Brownstown, [RE:5].
Hardcover.