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Published by Del Rey, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 1994
ISBN 10: 034538699XISBN 13: 9780345386991
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near-fine (fine except for moderate upper front corner bump), in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L116.
Published by Del Rey, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2007
ISBN 10: 0345501748ISBN 13: 9780345501745
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Gary Gianni (illustrator). 1st Edition. In GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures - from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser storie - in a wonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor, cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy of Scheherazade's most tantalizing tales. They're an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticism as he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin, comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the Caucasus Mountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and surviving however they can - as blades and thieves for hire and as practiced bamboozlers, cheerfully separating the gullible from their money. No strangers to tight scrapes and close shaves, they've left many a fist shaking in their dust, tasted their share of enemy steel, and made good any number of hasty exits under hostile circumstances. None of which has necessarily prepared them to be dragooned into service as escorts and defenders to a prince of the Khazar Empire. Usurped by his brutal uncle, the callow and decidedly ill-tempered young royal burns to reclaim his rightful throne. But doing so will demand wicked cunning, outrageous daring, and foolhardy bravado . . . not to mention an army. Zelikman and Amram can at least supply the former. But are these gentlemen of the road prepared to become generals in a full-scale revolution? The only certainty is that getting there - along a path paved with warriors and whores, evil emperors and extraordinary elephants, secrets, swordplay, and such stuff as the grandest adventures are made of - will be much more than half the fun. As new, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} L144/l137.
Published by Del Rey, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2002
ISBN 10: 0345435281ISBN 13: 9780345435286
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L111.