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The American Don Quixote
A Modern Knight's Quest for Dulcinea Under Glass
For ten years, Travis Heinze lived out of a gutted Ford Focus and crossed nineteen states, refusing on constitutional principle to produce identification on demand. A Wisconsin-born veteran, he had formed his mind on books he believed to be literally true — not romances of chivalry, but the Fourth Amendment, Brown v. Texas, and a pocket Constitution carried in his shirt ever after. The Focus was his Rocinante; his own stomach, his Sancho Panza; a hatband of refrigerator magnets, the helmet of Mambrino.
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This is his chronicle, told in his own voice and set in order by an anonymous Louisiana attorney who claims — after Cervantes — to be not the knight's father but his stepfather: the man who merely found the papers.
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Illustrated in the full nineteenth-century sense, in the dense wood-engraving tradition of Gustave Doré's 1863 Quixote — twenty-nine chapters carrying more than sixty engravings, from the frozen dragons of Wisconsin to a Louisiana courthouse inscribed for the civitas rather than the state. A comic novel about a serious man, a legal argument conducted at walking pace, and a quest whose lady waits at the end, under glass, in Washington.
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Book Editions
The Three Tiers
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Available Now
The Illustrated Color Edition
Hardcover
The complete novel with all sixty-plus engravings rendered in full tonal color, printed on coated stock that lets every plate stand at its richest — the warm ochres, the deep shadows, the illuminated detail. Bound as a hardcover made to be held, shelved, and returned to. This is the edition for the reader who wants the art at full voice: the most immersive way to travel the road with the knight.
$69.50
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Coming Soon
The Classic Edition
Hardcover
The same complete novel, with its engravings presented in the classic black-and-white of the tradition that began it — the very form in which Doré's 1863 Quixote first reached the world. Dramatic in contrast, faithful to the historic art of the illustrated book, and priced as the accessible way to own the complete work. For the reader who loves the line, the shadow, and the classic printed page.
$34.50
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Coming Soon
The Collector's Edition
Signed & Numbered
A limited fine-press edition for the shelf that keeps its books a hundred years: gilt edges, ribbon marker, foil-stamped binding, and additional plates and prose found in no other edition — the definitive, complete work. Each copy hand-numbered and embossed by the author. Details to come.
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