Used-Very Good.

Used-Very Good.

Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Signed by author on title page. (historical fiction, mystery)

Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Very Good. Good dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Signed by author on title page. (historical fiction, mystery)

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 375 p.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 375 p.

First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

First edition. Sticker on front pastedown, else near fine in near fine dust

First edition. Sticker on front pastedown, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. First novel, featuring American diarist and educator Henry Adams looking for the owner of some missing fingers.

First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First novel, featuring American diarist and educator Henry Adams looking for the owner of some missing fingers.

First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First novel, featuring American diarist and educator Henry Adams looking for the owner of some missing fingers.

New York. 1995. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1995. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374229430. 375 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye. Jacket photograph-'At The Bridge', (1862-63) by Adolph Braun. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: American Literature. DESCRIPTION-Paris, 1892. American historian Henry Adams, grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, is looking for Miriam Talbott, a young American student. Miriam is alive in ways Adams can scarcely remember being, but when he goes looking for her, she disappears. When another woman's body is fished out of the Seine and identified as hers, Adams becomes embroiled in the police's attempt to identify the body and in the Panama Canal scandal that threatens to engulf France. Adams' search leads him into the darker reaches of Paris, into a political world as impenetrable and threatening as the jungles of Panama. The dead body, Miriam Talbott, and the information he uncovers are the keys to the mystery-but before the truth is discovered, more than one person is killed, and Adams not only endangers his life, but potential U.S. interests in the canal. Eric Zencey's suspenseful, brilliant novel offers an exquisite balance of intrigue and history-and a provocative view of a world teetering on the brink of modernity. inventory #21703.