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Scales of Gold (signed)
de Dunnett, Dorothy
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine condition/Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394586271
- ISBN 13
- 9780394586274
- Librería
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. A beautiful copy -- fresh and crisp. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, & unmarked. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (24.00). No chips or tears. No remainder mark. No bookplate. Endpaper maps. Laid-in is the publisher's "Internal Review Copy" slip. Historical fiction. The Dust Jacket art on this First US Edition is beautiful, and completely different from the British edition. A volume in the House of Niccolo series. From the Dust Jacket: "It is 1464, and Dorothy Dunnett plunges us into the Age of Discovery… merchant-banker Nicholas vander Poele, a brilliant maverick who has risen by his wits from dyer's apprentice to master of international trade, politics, and intrigue. In Venice, unknown enemies threaten to destroy Nicholas's company and bank. To protect his fortune and expand his commercial empire, the audacious young man sets sail for the fabled, gold-rich lands of Africa… Nicolas and his companions… experience Africa's perilous mixture of brutality and grandeur, the horror of the slave trade, the ferocity of climate, man, and beast; the austere nobility of Islamic culture of Timbuktu." . INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the AUTHOR on title page. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Craft, Kinuko Y. (jacket art). 8vo. xi, 519pp .
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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- About Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 013149
- Título
- Scales of Gold (signed)
- Autor
- Dunnett, Dorothy
- Ilustrador
- Craft, Kinuko Y. (jacket art)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394586271
- ISBN 13
- 9780394586274
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo. xi, 519pp
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