Ivory pearl

Jean-Patrick Manchette

Original title: La Princesse de sang

earliest edition we have, 1996 Editions Payot & Rivages, 1996 202 pages

Rivages/thriller,

"Set in Cuba's Sierra Maestra in the 1950s, in the days leading up to the Revolution--Manchette's unfinished masterpiece with a fearless female protagonist. Four of the ten titles in Jean-Patrick Manchette's celebrated 1970s cycle of hard-boiled novels, which the author originally dubbed neo-polars, or "neo-crime novels," have now appeared in English translation. Manchette is beginning to have a significant following...

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This book in English

Donald Nicholson-Smith 1 printing we hold · 2018 · The New York Review of Books

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Editions we hold

Ivory pearl edition · 2018 · The New York Review of Books · 183 pages · 9781681372105
La Princesse de sang paperback · 1999 · Rivages · 324 pages · 9782743604837
La princesse du sang edition · 1996 · Editions Payot & Rivages · 202 pages
Mavi Kanli Prenses edition · 1996 · Merkez Kitaplar · 192 pages · 9789759174408

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