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PHILLIPS,GRAHAM: : THE SEARCH FOR THE GRAIL. [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.CENTURY,1995.

ISBN 0712675337.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's blue ink dedication+signature: 'With best wishes Graham Phillips' to title page,and no price-clip to dw/j.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,b/w scenic photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges slightly dust-soiled with some sporadic spotting and heavy toning,fore-edges also aged/toned but to a lesser degree; contents bright,tight,clean - solid and sound - page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners unread? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain dark maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-182pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w photographs and b/w reproduction llustrations in 1 block between pp90/1,a chronology,a bibliography,and an index. Plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,acknowledgements,an Index separator page and 4pp blanks at rear. After the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity in the early fourth century,his mother the Empress Helena ordered the excavation of the Holy Sepulchre,the purported site of Christ's tomb in Jerusalem. During the excavation a cup was found,which many believed to be the vessel used by Jesus himself at the Last Supper. According to the 5thC historian Olympiodorus,it was smuggled out of Rome when the city was sacked by the barbarian Visigoths in 410 AD.What became of the sacred relic is unknown,but well into the Middle Ages the legend survived that it was safely taken to the last outpost of Roman civilisation in western Europe - the isle of Britain. In legend,the cup became the most sacred relic of all - the Holy Grail.It was believed to hold miraculous healing powers,and in medieval literature the search for the Grail became an eternal quest for King arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Then,in the early 1600's,Shropshire landowner Robert Vernon claimed to have discovered the true hiding place of the Grail.On his deathbed Vernon said that he had learned of its whereabouts from a medieval eccliastical narrative called the Peverel.He dies without revealing his secret,or producing the document as proof. In 1994,historical detective Graham Phillips discovered an astonishing confirmation of Vernon's claim.The 'Peverel' did exist,surviving in a 14thC manuscript in the vaults of the British Library.Listed as the 'Historia Anglicarum: Regem XII',the manuscripts tells how the grail was kept by an order of monks at an abbey in Shropshire,just a few miles from Vernon's home at Hodnet. Remarkably,the work did not refer to the Grail as a mythical relic,but as the historical artefact discovered by the Empress Helena in Jerusalem in the year 327. This new evidence for the existence of the sacred cup initiated a 20thC search for the Holy Grail,an incredible adventure following a trail of mysterious clues left years ago in the English countryside.'The Search for the Grail' is the remarkable true story of a modern-day quest. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
'With best wishes Graham Phillips'

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