1989; Houghton Mifflin Company publishers, Boston; illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg; hardbound with wonderful pictoral blue boards and gilt lettering; very good condition of book.
 
Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".