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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition beige boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Salman Rushdie; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments and About the Author. "This brilliant, fascinating, generous novel swarms with gorgeous young women both historical and imagined, beautiful queens and irresistible enchantresses.[a] sumptuous, impetuous mixture of history with fable. But in the end, of course, it is the hand of the master artist, past all explanation, that gives this book its glamour and power, its humour and shock, its verve, its glory. It is a wonderful tale, full of follies and enchantments. East meets West with a clash of cymbals and a burst of fireworks. We English-speakers have our own Ariosto now, our Tasso, stolen out of India. Aren't we the lucky ones?" - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian (London) "A tall, yellow-haired, young European traveler calling himself "Mogor dell'Amore," the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the imperial capital, a tale about a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, and her impossible journey to the far-off city of Florence. The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers - the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akba the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolo Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power. Vivid, gripping, irreverent, bawdy, profoundly moving, and completely absorbing, The Enchantress of Florence is a dazzling book full of wonders by one of the world's most important living writers." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bordwin, Gabrielle (jacket design); Sheehan, Beowulf (author photograph); Geiger, Andrew (jacket art) (illustrator). …

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: A large heavy volume -- there are 466 numbered pages, followed by the indexes, plus many un-numbered photo pages. The preface states ''We present Volume III of The Toy Auction Price Guide, 1994, which we feel is a comprehensive guide to the world of toys. Along with Volume I and II, this the most complete guide to the boy market available.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: red binding with gilt; one tiny blemish on the front spine edge, a Very Good book; no dust jacket. indexes. 4to (11.25 inches tall). 466 pages.…

Beowulf Fine Art Ltd.: Houston, TX 1992. Illus, 11 x 8.5", boards, over 200pp, minor cover soil.