Buy this book on-line CORNWELL**, BERNARD: : SWORD OF KINGSLONDON.HarperCollinsPublisher's,2019. ISBN 9780008183899.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with author's glossy, embossed,white-lettered name to front's top edge and capitalised, embossed.gilt-lettered title to lower edge. Spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as the front's,a thumbnail colour photographic detail from front's illustration and publisher's white-lettered and illustrated name and colophon respectively,towards the foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with story's grey-lettered prose extract.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a yellow headband and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3- 334pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 comprising 4, 4, 4 and 3 chapters respectively,and an Historical Note; plus [unpaginated] a half-title page with author's potted biography,2pp Place Names,a title page,a dedication,a Contents list/table,a b/w Map of Mercia,East Anglia and Wessex,individual Pts b/w thumbnail illustrated separator pages,and to the rear,3pp of author'slisted titles in this and other series -Grail Quest,Starbuck,Warlord and Sharpe - and stand alone novels and non-fiction titles too, followed by 2pp blanks.
Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for it's brightness,cleanliness and lack of other or age-acquired detracting faults.See my book ID rja1194024 for series concluding title. The 12th and penultimate book in the epic and bestselling series 'LAST KINGDOM' formerly the 'WARRIOR Chronicles'/Saxon Stories,begun with 'The Last Kingdom','The Pale Horseman','The Lords of the North','Sword Song','The Burning Land','Death of Kings','The Pagan Lord','The Empty Throne','Warriors of the Storm','The Flame Bearer','War of the Wolf',and the penultimate 'Sword of Kings',this title. An oath of loyalty. Two warring kings. A destiny he didn't choose An oath bound him to King Alfred.An oath bound him to Aethelflaed. And now an oath will wrench him away from the ancestral home he fought so hard to regain.For Uhtred has sworn that on King Edwards death, he will kill two men. And now Edward is dying. A violent attack drives Uhtred south with a small band of warriors, and headlong into the battle for kingship.Plunged into a world of shifting alliances and uncertain loyalties, he will need all his strength and guile to overcome the fiercest warrior of them all. As two opposing Kings gather their armies, fate drags Uhtred to London, and a struggle for control that must leave one King victorious, and one dead.But fate as Uhtred has learned to his cost is inexorable. Wyrd bi ful araed. And Uhtreds destiny is to stand at the heart of the shield wall once again . . .
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