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A SHADOW OF EAGLES
by Jane Barry New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Charles McCurry. An historical novel set in the 1870s on the South Texas border. The novel filled with period detail, intrigue, violence and romance, features a Spanish hacienda owner whose wife is American, their coming of age children, a young Zapotec man who loves the culture of Native Mexican Indian heritage, a Texas ranch owner, and more. Mild rectangular tanned offsetting to front inner hinge area, else nearly fine and tight in russet-brown over auburn-yellow linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine, burgundy-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a nearly fine dust jacket with with a touch of minor crimping to the lower edge of the front panel; original printed $5.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |