Lord Valentine's Castle, Copy 2.
by Silverberg, Robert
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0330264621
- ISBN 13
- 9780330264624
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 12th with number line.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a fantasy landscape with a castle in the background. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light creases & slight dish to spine, light crease to hinge. Provided with clear un-attached library slip-on cover. VG* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp & tight with considerable tanning especially to page margins and edges. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 506 pp. text. vi pp. blank pages and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In an archaic, feudal empire .. Valentine, an itinerant juggler, discovers through dreams that he is his namesake Lord Valentine, the Coronal or King - his body and throne stolen by an ursurper. There are countless sights in the Coronal's vast empire of Majipoor, Four-armed Skandar, scaly Ghaygrogs, tiny Vroond, leathery Hjorts, rootless trees, flesh eating flowers! And walking alone through the crowded streets and deserted plains, a stranger pursuing a dream.The juggler Valentine. His dream was long and terrifying ~ and spoke of a fabulous inheritance. And now the time has become for the guardians of the dream to rise up and lay claim to their kingdom.* This is a GD copy of the 1st./12th imp. with number line, and absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2009
- Title
- Lord Valentine's Castle, Copy 2.
- Author
- Silverberg, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, Late Imp.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330264621
- ISBN 13
- 9780330264624
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Place of Publication
- London UK 512
- Date Published
- 1981-01-01
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