[Signed] [First Edition] Damascus Gate Stone

A handsome brown leather Limited First Edition signed by the author. One of only 1,400 limited signed copies. With gold gilt cover designs and page edges, map endpapers of Jerusalem (front) and Israel (back). 500 pp. Includes the publisher's full-page notecard about the book and the author from Franklin Library. In Fine condition but for several very light marks on the page edges not affecting the gilt. "Damascus Road" takes place as the ancient city of Jerusalem emerges into the new millennium, featuring a character believing himself to be the new messiah caught up in a terrorist plot and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1998. In an interesting 1999 interview with Fred Newman and Dr. Leonra Fulain during his "Damascus Gate" book tour, Stone spoke of the architecture of Jerusalem: ".All these old stones that are thousands of years oldthey don't belong to the past. Unlike the ruins in Athens and other places, they're not about the past they're about the present. Even about the future." Stone won the 1975 National Book Award for his 1960's New Orleans novel "Dog Soldiers," and served as Chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Directors in three decades of service. He was referred to as "America's most astonishing writer" by John Gardner (famed for his 1971 novel "Grendel" with Beowulf's beast as the protagonist). "Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone" by Madison Smartt Bell explores Stone's life and publications in detail.

Estimate:£166.3

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