New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998. First American edition, first printing, with full letter line ending in A. Hardcover. Yellow paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy with no faults. Octavo, 245 pages. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. A literary historical thriller set in Madrid on the brink of revolution in 1868. Don Jaime Astarloa, an aging fencing instructor and an idealist devoted to the obsolete code of the gentleman-swordsman, finds his quiet life upended when a mysterious and beautiful woman insists he teach her the secret thrust a deadly maneuver he has vowed never to teach again. Arturo P�rez-Reverte is also the author of "The Club Dumas" and "The Seville Communion.".

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Title

The Fencing Master (First American Edition)

Publisher

Harcourt Brace, New York

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0151001812

ISBN 13

9780151001811

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Spanish Literature

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A request from a mysterious woman draws fencing master Don Jaime into a dangerous plot involving seduction, political intrigue, top-secret documents, and murder, in a historical mystery set against the turbulent backdrop of 1868 Madrid. By the author of The Seville Communion. 100,000 first printing. BOMC. Tour.

About the Author

Arturo Prez-Reverte is the internationally acclaimed author of The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, and The Seville Communion. Translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries, his books have sold over three million copies worldwide. He is a well-known newspaper columnist and worked as a television journalist before becoming one of the world's most widely read and best-loved writers. He was born in 1951 in Cartagena, Spain.

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