Conspicuous Consumption: A bunch of children periodically selling piles of valuable items, with no plausible explanation as to how they got those valuable items, while there are newspaper articles of recent major thefts in current circulation, is all really suspicious.Cool Mask: Scipio wears a black, bird-beaked plague doctor mask that effectively creeps the other kids out.Cool Big Sis: Ida isn't actually anyone's sister, but she fits the character description.*Click* Hello: Ida does this (except without the click because her rifle doesn't actually work) to the kids when they break into her house in the middle of the night and start arguing amongst themselves.
Barbarossa later sneaks to the Isola Segreta and threatens Morosina with harm, demanding that she show him the treasure with "huge diamonds and pearls."
Call-Back: At one point, when the children pick up a letter from the Conte at Barbarossa's shop, Barbarossa presses them for details about what the Conte asked them to steal, and Bo taunts him with stories about its appearance, mentioning diamonds and pearls. Butt-Monkey: Victor (overlaps a bit with The Chew Toy). Broken Pedestal: The kids to Scipio when they find out the truth about his origins, particularly Riccio. Bound and Gagged: The children do this to Victor when he comes snooping around their hideout (an abandoned cinema), then lock him in the men's bathroom. Big Brother Instinct: Prosper to Bo, and it drives the entire plot. Esther always wanted a child that looked like an adorable angel but could behave like a charming adult. In a couple of years, he'll have exactly what he wanted anyway. Barbarossa's fate could also be called Cursed with Awesome. Be Careful What You Wish For: Everyone who uses the merry-go-round has shades of this, but Barbarossa gets it the worst. Interestingly, these are both masks for his true personality, which is somewhere in between. This is obvious even to Victor, who had met him only briefly. Beneath the Mask: Scipio is a completely different person when he is with the other kids and when he is around his father. Badass Longcoat: The Thief Lord wears one. However, it is mentioned that, when he lived with Mosca and Hornet, and before Scipio began helping them out, his life was anything but happy and carefree. Unlike most of the other kids, he quite enjoys stealing for a living and is disgusted by the thought of living under an adult's care. The Artful Dodger: Riccio is something of this. The Conte and Esther also get more sympathetic closer to the end. Later, he's even willing to lie to the Hartilebs to try and put them off Prosper and Bo's trail. Anti-Villain: Victor isn't actually villainous he's looking for the boys because he's been hired to and because he rightfully believes that five is a bit too young to be getting along without parents, but he is also extremely sympathetic to their plight. Pages are slightly age toned to the edges, as is usual. The dustwrapper is also in an excellent condition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A fantastic, signed copy of this important children's novel from the turn of the twenty-first century. This novel has won the Zurich Children's book award and the Children's book award given by the Vienna House of Literature. They, along with a gang of homeless children, are hiding out at an old cinema and are looked after by a boy who has named himself the Thief Lord. 'The Thief Lord' follows two brothers, Prosper and Bo, who are recently orphaned and therefore escape to Venice. This is the first impression, with no mention of scholastic to the colophon. It was first published in Germany in 2000 before this English translation by Oliver Latsch in 2002. 
Funke is best known for her Inkheart Trilogy, which was published in the United Kingdom in 2004-2008. A fine copy of this work, which has since been adapted into a film. Signed by Funke to the half-title and with the original promotional bookmark. The first edition of this novel by international bestselling children's author, Cornelia Funke.
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