A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, Book 1)

Hambly, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0553102583 / ISBN 13: 9780553102581

Published by Bantam, 1997

About this Item

Signed (inscribed) by author on title page, July 1997 with full number line. Text block, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper in fine, like new condition. Extremely fine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Seller Inventory # BAY_00_SH_030671

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, Book 1)
• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553102583
• ISBN 13: 9780553102581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Benjamin January, a Creole physician and piano teacher who has known the glories of Paris as well as of his native New Orleans, is at the Blue Ribbon Ball during Mardi Gras. Near the ball, Angelique Crozat, an octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, is found murdered--and there is no shortage of suspects. This novel transports the reader to the center of the cosmopolitan South in an age when both its glories and the forces which would tear it apart are equally in evidence.

About the Author

Barbara Hambly is the author of The Emancipator’s Wife, a finalist for the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. She is also the author of Fever Season, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and seven acclaimed historical novels.


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