Falls the Shadow by Penman, Sharon Kay - 1988

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805003002 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, pages a little yellowed.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 580 pages; "Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people. This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending. It is a tale of opposing wills that would eventually clash in a storm of violence and betrayal" .