Robert as bernard bastable barnard (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First US Edition. Blue boards, green cloth spine. Hint of age toning to page edges, in very slightly edge rubbed DJ, price clipped. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 183 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Dj Has Very Light Edgewear. Light Wear. Very Light Soiling.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. Front endpaper neatly removed else near fine in dust jacket. Mozart visited England as a child, but this story suggests that instead of returning to Austria and an early death, he stayed. It is 1820 and Mozart finds himself insulted by the king (George IV), used by his mistress, and involved in both the disposal ofa body and initiating inquiries to find the murderer. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: N-Fine. N-Fine. First Edition/First Print. A square tight solid clean un-read near new copy. This copy has one corner bump. The jacket shows a bit of edgewear. Nice copy. Barnard writing using the above pseudonym. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Book. …

Zustand: FINE. First US printing. A whimsical alternative history in the form of a murder mystery, set in Germany in 1830 where Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart is getting on in years, but is still quite spry. 183 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "From the perspective of half a century later, Sarah Jane Fearing, the unwilling heiress of Fearing's Bank, tells the slender tale of how her beloved Uncle Frank, eager to pay off his many debts at the same time he accommodated the family frantic for a male heir, entered a bargain in 1893 to marry Mary Coverdale, impeccably pedigreed, coldly attractive, and professionally focused on reigning as chatelaine over Blakemere. The bargain turns into a disaster for everyone concerned when Frank and Mary's firstborn son turns out to be retarded; Frank and his family clash over whether Frank has fulfilled his promise to provide them with a male heir; and a ceremonious family conference erupts in what Sarah is convinced is a murder--followed by the disappearance of Frank (to Australia, so they say) and Mary (back to her older, and now wiser, family), and by the suspicious enrichment of potential witnesses. Robert Barnard, writing in his Bastable guise (Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart, 1996, etc.) adroitly uses his story to point a familiar moral about the poisoned alliance between self-regarding old British families and the money they demand to support themselves, though the moral turns out to have an extra point at the end.: -- Kirkus Review. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Combining mystery with alternative history, Bastable, who is really veteran mystery author Robert Barnard, offers us a Wolfgang Mozart who has lived to old age. Still unrecognized, still in debt, a widower after a long and happy marriage, the former child prodigy and performer for kings finds himself giving music lessons to Princess Victoria, heir apparent to the throne of England. But having more on her mind than music, the princess asks her piano teacher to uncover the truth about the ambiguous relationship between her mother and Sir John Conroy. The mature Mozart-a bit cagey, puckish, and fond of his young student-acts as a liaison between the princess's mother and the disarmingly informal newly crowned King William IV, who lives with Queen Adelaide surrounded by his brood of illegitimate children. The King, Victoria's uncle, invites her, the heir apparent, to the Windsor court. Shortly after her arrival, a court visitor is fatally poisoned after sipping from a cup intended for Victoria, and the king calls upon Mozart to make the kind of discreet inquiries at which he has proven so competent. Bastable imagines his characters and their setting so fully and seamlessly and offers such appealing possibilities that readers will wish this slight piece offered Mozart and Victoria more range." -- Publishers Weekly. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. 1st. Ed. Pages age toned as usual else fine in dust jacket, not price clipped. Mozart visited England as a child, but this story suggests that instead of returning to Austria and an early death, he stayed. It is 1820 and Mozart finds himself insulted by the king (George IV), used by his mistress, and involved in both the disposal ofa body and initiating inquiries to find the murderer. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A Nearly Fine FIrst printing of the first Carroll & Graf edition that has some aging in an alike dust-jacket; Barnardâs tale of murder and mystery takes place at an enormous country estate. The murder mystery revolves around the identity of the killer, and the search for the weapon. The mansion itself is a central part of the story, and the author cleverly weaves in the character of the estateâs caretaker, who provides a unique perspective on the events. The book is well-written and entertaining, and the conclusion is surprising.; 8vo; 184 pages; MR.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardcover in unclipped dust jacket Fine condition, personally inscribed and signed with both names on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of a fine hardcover with the pages toning, in a fine dustjacket. A fictional mystery about an aging Wolfgang Mozart giving piano lessons to Princess Victoria in 1830. She asks him to spy on her mother and attempts on Victoria's life begins.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.