The Bellini Card (Signed First Edition)

Goodwin, Jason

ISBN 10: 0374110395 / ISBN 13: 9780374110390

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009

About this Item

First American edition. First printing. A pristine unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Purchased new and never opened except for author to SIGN on the title page. Goodwin has signed his name only, without any other writing. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. The third in this series. The Janissary Tree and The Snake Stone, the first two books, pivot on a Turkish eunuch detective, Yashim, who lives and works in 19th century Istanbul. The Janissary Tree won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2007. The third Yashim novel, The Bellini Card, was released in the U.K. in summer 2008.

Seller Inventory # Signed-Fiction-2021-003

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bellini Card (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374110395
• ISBN 13: 9780374110390
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Investigator Yashim travels to Venice in the latest installment of the Edgar Award winning author Jason Goodwin s captivating series Jason Goodwin s first Yashim mystery, The Janissary Tree, brought home the Edgar Award for Best Novel. His follow-up, The Snake Stone, more than lived up to expectations and was hailed by Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times Book Review as a magic carpet ride to the most exotic place on earth. Now, in The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin takes us back into his intelligent, gorgeous and evocative (The Independent on Sunday) world, as dazzling as a hall of mirrors and utterly compelling. Istanbul, 1840: the new sultan, Abdülmecid, has heard a rumor that Bellini s vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. Yashim, our eunuch detective, is promptly asked to investigate

About the Author

Jason Goodwin is the bestselling author of The Janissary Tree—winner of the 2007 Edgar ® Award for Best Novel—and The Snake Stone, the first two books in his series of novels featuring Yashim. Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and is the author of Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, among other award-winning nonfiction.