Soldier of Arete (1989) Signed First Edition Reference

Soldier of Arete continues Latro’s journey through the ancient world, published in 1989. The novel finds Latro traveling northward, encountering new peoples and new gods. Wolfe’s method of rendering Greek place names through Latin equivalents continues to defamiliarize the ancient world, and Latro’s amnesia continues to generate narrative complexity — the reader knows more than the narrator, yet can never be certain how much of Latro’s scroll is accurate.

First Edition Identification

Publisher: Tor Books, New York Publication date: 1989 Format: Hardcover in dust jacket

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition, fine/fine: $100–$250
• Unsigned first edition: $15–$40

The second Soldier novel. The seventeen-year gap before the third installment, Soldier of Sidon, is one of the longer waits in Wolfe’s bibliography.