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The Bacchus Claim
by Salerno, Dorcey Price
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1440164215
- ISBN 13
- 9781440164217
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
2009. Signed and inscribed by author on fep; author's husband has also signed his first name and done a little drawing on fep. 8vo size trade paperback; 351 bright, white pages. From back: "In 1939 in a Venice mask shop, Ben Cantarini, son of a respected Jewish art dealer, finds the preliminary drawing of Bacchus by Caravaggio, the brilliant 16th century painter... Ben hopes to build his future as an art dealer with this amazing find. But the start of World War II, followed by the onerous laws passed against Italian Jews, throws Ben's life into turmoil. The sketch...is stolen in Rome by a Gestapo agent...the Bacchus sketch is lost in the madness of war... More than 60 years later, when a prestigious Manhattan auction house offers the drawings for sale, it falls to Ben's granddaughter to try to prove that the Bacchus sketch rightfully belongs to her family." Edgewear, light wear to covers with a light crease near top corner. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003661
- Title
- The Bacchus Claim
- Author
- Salerno, Dorcey Price
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1440164215
- ISBN 13
- 9781440164217
- Publisher
- Iuniverse
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Signed; novel; fiction;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Novels; Signed;
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- Inscribed
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