THRONE OF JADE: TEMERAIRE BOOK 2 (SIGNED)
Language: English
Published by Ballantine Del Rey, 2006
Series: Book 2 of 9 - Temeraire
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- New
Seller: Top Shelf Books, Santa Rosa, CA, U.S.A.Top Shelf Books
AbeBooks seller since April 12, 2019
Condition: New
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Paperback, first printing. Very fine (unread) copy. Signed by Novik on the title page. Mass market paperback published in April 2006 and the true first edition. (Its first US hardcover edition was published by the Science Fiction Book Club in an omnibus collecting all three novels titled Temeraire: In the Service of the King.) His Majesty's Dragon won the 2007 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award for Best First Novel in the SF/Fantasy genre.) The first hardcover edition was published in the UK in August 2006.
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- Title
- THRONE OF JADE: TEMERAIRE BOOK 2 (SIGNED)
- Author
- Novik, Naomi
- Publisher
- Ballantine Del Rey
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345481291
- ISBN 13
- 9780345481290
- Illustrator
- Harman, Dominic
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 2 of 9: Temeraire
- Seller catalogs
- FANTASY, SIGNED BOOKS
“Full of wonderful characters with real heart.”—Peter Jackson
When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo—an unhatched dragon's egg—Captain Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain’s Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Napoleon Bonaparte’s invading forces.
Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for Napoleon, has fallen into British hands—and an angry Chinese delegation vows to reclaim the remarkable beast. A reluctant Laurence has no choice but to take Temeraire back to China—a long voyage fraught with peril, intrigue, and the untold terrors of the deep. Yet once the pair reaches the court of the Chinese emperor, even more shocking discoveries and darker dangers await.
“Readers with a penchant for both Patrick O’Brian and Anne McCaffrey may have found their perfect match. Naomi Novik beautifully renders an 1800s Europe in which naval buffs and dragon lovers will be keen to immerse themselves.”—Alan Dean Foster, author of the Pip & Flinx series
Don’t miss any of Naomi Novik’s magical Temeraire series
HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON • THRONE OF JADE • BLACK POWDER WAR • EMPIRE OF IVORY • VICTORY OF EAGLES • TONGUES OF SERPENTS • CRUCIBLE OF GOLD • BLOOD OF TYRANTS • LEAGUE OF DRAGONS
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About the Author
Naomi Novik is the acclaimed author of the Temeraire series: His Majesty’s Dragon, Throne of Jade, Black Powder War, Empire of Ivory, Victory of Eagles, Tongues of Serpents, Crucible of Gold, Blood of Tyrants, and League of Dragons. She has been nominated for the Hugo Award and has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the Locus Award for Best New Writer and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of Uprooted and the graphic novel Will Supervillains Be on the Final? She lives in New York City with her husband Charles Ardai, the founder of Hard Case Crime, and their daughter, Evidence, surrounded by an excessive number of purring computers.
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About Top Shelf Books Top Shelf Books is a Virtual Bookshop specializing in collectible Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror hardcover First Edition books since 1991 and online since 1996. Signed editions, British (UK) editions and Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy Award winners are also a specialty. Actual Signature Photos. Almost 300 signed First Edition books in our SF, Fantasy and Horror catalogs. Rare and Collectible Editions with their Award histories. In-depth and Accurate Book Descriptions and Conditions. We started as a mail order bookstore in 1991 in the San Francisco Bay Area. We published catalogs on a quarterly or semi-annual basis. Drafting, printing and mailing catalogs were extremely time consuming. Each catalog was written and edited in Word Perfect in the publishing mode, printed at the local Kinko's shop, assembled into catalog format by page number, address labels applied (printed from another program) and finally stamped with postage and carried in boxes to the Post Office for mailing to our customer list. Our last catalog before going online was our Spring/Summer 1996 catalog. Top Shelf Books was one of the first specialty booksellers to go online. We actually had to create the website, page by page, coding in HTML. Each book's jacket had to be scanned and uploaded.…
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