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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork illustrated dw/dj with dark blue,red and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red headband and sewn-in,red silk bookmark ribbon and immaculate world/regional map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-431pp [paginated] includes Dramatis Personae,65 chapters and acknowledgements to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,author's note,and an epigram.
Forced to flee Rome from the barbaric rampages of the Ostrogoths in AD 549,merchant Nicander and his unlikely ally,Marius,a fierce Roman legionary,escape to a new life in Constantinople.The two land upon its shores lonely and penniless.Determined to make their fortune,they plot a number of outrageous money-making schemes,until they chance upon their greatest idea yet.
Armed with a wicked plan to steal precious silk seeds from the faraway land of Seres,Nicander and Marius must embark upon a terrifyingly treacherous journey across unknown realms,never before completed.But first they must deceive the powerful ruler Justinian and the rest of his formidable Byzantine Empire in order to begin their voyage into the unknown.
In an adventurous tale of mischief and deception,Nicander and Marius face danger of the highest order,where nothing in the land of the Roman Empire is quite what it seems.
Author's first title in a new series and also his first book for his new publisher,Allison & Busby.
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