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Damascus Gate
by Stone, Robert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395665698
- ISBN 13
- 9780395665695
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Signed on the title page by Robert Stone, no inscriptions. Quarter black cloth with gilt titles and tan boards. Tight binding, square with sharp corners. Interior is clean, bright and free of any markings. The unclipped dustjacket is clean, crisp and shows the original $26.00 price intact with no chips, tears or other defects. Protected in a mylar cover. Stone was five times a finalist for the National Book Award and won the award for his 1974 novel, Dog Soldiers. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
Synopsis
With soaring vision and profound intelligence, Robert Stone has written a harrowing, breathtaking novel about our desperate search, at any price, for the consolation of redemption - and about the people who are all too willing to provide it. A violent confrontation in the Gaza Strip, a mind-altering pilgrimage, a race through riot-filled Jerusalem streets, a cat-and-mouse game in an underground maze, a desperate attempt to prevent a bomb from detonating beneath the Temple Mount - Damascus Gate is an exhilarating journey through the moral and religious ambiguities that haunt the holiest of cities and its seekers, cynics, hustlers, and madmen. Set in Jerusalem, where violence, ecstasy, heresy, and salvation are all to be found, Damascus Gate is simultaneously the story of a man's search for truth - or some version of it - and the story of a city where sanity is casually traded for faith.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Linden Avenue Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10149
- Title
- Damascus Gate
- Author
- Stone, Robert
- Illustrator
- Michaela Sullivan, jacket art and design
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395665698
- ISBN 13
- 9780395665695
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston / New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 500
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- Fiction, first edition, signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Autographs and signed books; Modern First Editions; Literature;
Terms of Sale
Linden Avenue Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Linden Avenue Books
Biblio member since 2023
Salem, Oregon
About Linden Avenue Books
Linden Avenue Books is independently owned and operated and located in Lincoln City, Oregon. We feature a wide range of fiction and non-fiction, including biography, history and modern first editions. All books are carefully packed and shipped in a box.
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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