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Hardcover, bound in full genuine dark blue gilt-stamped leather binding. xii, 380 pages. Brand new copy in factory shrink-wrap. A quality Easton Press production with all the refinements that go to make this a truly fine binding: bound in satin ribbon marker, all edges gilt, raised spine, 22kt gold stamping, smyth-sewn binding, silk moire end-papers, acid free archival paper and full genuine leather binding. Limited First signed and numbered edition, published by Easton Press, 2002. One of 1,150 copies, personally signed by author Thomas Keneally, with COA (Certificate of Authenticity) and Collector’s Notes laid-in loose. “Examines the life of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife’s lover and, thanks to the influence of political friends, got away with murder.” [WorldCat summary]. The author, an Australian novelist and playwright is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize, which he won for his historical novel Schindler’s Ark, the basis for Spielberg’s block-buster movie. A pristine copy, gift quality, new is shrink wrap.