Maclyon Isbn 0297769820
by Lolah, Burford
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0297769820
- ISBN 13
- 9780297769828
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Illustration to dust wrapper by Dereck Stenburg, in black on blue-grey background. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £3.75. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to spine which is lightly faded. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 308 pp. text. ii pp. notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: Set in the era of the Jacobite rebellion it concerns the extraordinary story of Diarmid, eldest son of Maclyon who abducts and marries a terrified young girl Mary Elizabeth. Diarmid is arrested by King Georges troops following atrocities on his family and his new wife. He responds by killing two of the soldiers before he is hauled of to Carlisle gaol. Despite the extraordinary circumstances of her abduction and forcible marriage Mary Elizabeth makes every effort including making the ultimate sacrifice of her body and her favours to save her erstwhile husband despite his exportation to Georgia in America. At once shockingly realistic and unabashedly romantic, Maclyon is high-tension drama all the way to its surprising and stirring final scene.* A NEAR FINE copy with minor jacket faults reducing it to VG++*
Synopsis
The son of a vicar, ADAM LLOYD BAKER lives in London, where he has worked as a grave digger. New York Graphic is his first novel. His new novel, Skyline , is to be published by Gollancz in fall 1999.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4692
- Title
- Maclyon Isbn 0297769820
- Author
- Lolah, Burford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0297769820
- ISBN 13
- 9780297769828
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 0
- Date Published
- 1975-01-01
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