THE QUEEN'S HOUR
by Michael Gaunt
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, London - first edition © 1961 hardcover, 8" x 5 1/2", with dust jacket VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket Red cloth-bound boards with gold type (& motif) to spine, map Cyprus (1359), family tree of 'Royal House of Cyprus and Jerusalem', author's note at end. An historical novel set in fourteenth-century Cyprus when Eleanora of Aragon sails over the sea as bride to Peter I of Cyprus, last of the great kings of chivalry, chance brings Meriel de Gilles, the despised young daughter of a petty noble, into the queen's service, and there she meets and loves Hugh of Mantua, the king's physician and adviser. Eleanora becomes a hated adulteress, and with the king's brother, brings ruin to Cyprus.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28513
- Title
- THE QUEEN'S HOUR
- Author
- Michael Gaunt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 8" x 5 1/2", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, London - first edition
- Date Published
- © 1961
- Pages
- 316 pages
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction Cyprus Fiction General Fiction Michael Gaunt
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Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
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