Land of Hope and Glory.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork,by Angelo Rinaldi,with yellow,orange, white and brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Liquid splash/stain towards lower,front corner of upper board with concomitant bleeding internally to dw/dj; inevitable,light,superficial scoring/indents to both panels of dw/dj - but without affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-377pp [paginated] includes prologue,Pts 1+2 comprising 21 chapters and acknowledgements to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and a dedication.Author's debut novel.
A brilliant new novelist has created a world where the Indian Mutiny takes place in a very different England,where magic is a weapon controlled by the oppressors and where the only hope for the future is the return of the Holy Grail.
It is 1852.The empire of Rajthana - after vanquishing the Moorish Caliphate - has ruled Europe for more than a hundred years.With their vast armies,steam-and- sorcery technology and mastery of the mysterious power of sattva,the Rajthanans appear invincible.But a bloody rebellion has broken out in a remote corner of the empire,in a poor and backward region known as England.
At first Jack Casey,retired soldier wants nothing to do with the uprising.His health broken by the army,he wants only to live out what time is left to him in peaceful Dorset.But the Rajthanans,in the person of the ruthless Captain Sengar,want him back.William Merton,once Jack's best friend,is now roaming the West of England as the Ghost, leader of the rebels.And Jack - with his innate magical powers - is the only person who can track him down.
When Jack refuses,Sengar reveals that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth,has been caught helping the rebels.Unless Jack brings in William,she will hang. . .
Now all Jack has to do is to stay alive long enough to betray his friend as the rebellion spirals into an all-out war.
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