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RACE OF SCORPIONS: The House of Niccolo.
de Dunnett, Dorothy
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped)./near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0718132092
- ISBN 13
- 9780718132095
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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1990.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).. First US printing. The 3rd book in this gripping and highly praised series of historical novels, set in 15th century Renaissance Europe and feauturing Nicholas de Fleury (formerly vander Poele) of Bruges, a good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the head of a mercantile empire. Massive epic: 534 pages. Map endpapers of the Levant - Rhodes, Cyprus - and Southern Europe in 1462. Attractive dustjacket with wraparound painting by Kinuko Craft.
Sinopsis
Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespie's High School for Girls overlapped with that of the novelist Muriel Spark. From 1940-1955, she worked for the Civil Service as a press officer. In 1946, she married Alastair Dunnett, later editor of The Scotsman . Dunnett started writing in the late 1950s. Her first novel, The Game of Kings , was published in the United States in 1961, and in the United Kingdom the year after. She published 22 books in total, including the six-part Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband. Also an accomplished professional portrait painter, Dunnett exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions and had portraits commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland. She also led a busy life in public service, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, a Trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial, and Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival. She served on numerous cultural committees, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1992 she was awarded the Office of the British Empire for services to literature. She died on November 9, 2001, at the age of 78.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 64589
- Título
- RACE OF SCORPIONS: The House of Niccolo.
- Autor
- Dunnett, Dorothy
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- near fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0718132092
- ISBN 13
- 9780718132095
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1990.
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Historical Fiction;
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