Checkmate
by Dunnett, Dorothy
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Poor
- ISBN 10
- 0399114343
- ISBN 13
- 9780399114342
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
The year is 1557 and Francis Crawford of Lymond must serve the King of France for a year before he can return to Russia, where he believes his destiny lies. Yet the astrologer John Dee has said: It is not one thing you seek, but two; and the place for neither is Russia. Lymond, exercising his formidable military talents against the English, has no desire to discover the meaning of this prophecy. But Philippa, his wife-in-name only, has. And she devotes her days to a hazardous search for the truth about the past, and the future, of her enigmatic husband.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018596
- Title
- Checkmate
- Author
- Dunnett, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399114343
- ISBN 13
- 9780399114342
- Publisher
- PutnamG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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