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Niccolo Rising: The First Book in the House of Niccolo
by Dorothy Dunnett
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0375704779
- ISBN 13
- 9780375704772
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Vintage, New York, 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good Condition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 470 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. In this first book of The House of Niccolò series, the author of the Lymond Chronicles introduces a new hero, Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Historical Fiction; Italy; Medieval 10th to 15thc; ISBN: 0375704779. ISBN/EAN: 9780375704772. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9134. . 9780375704772
Synopsis
Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespie's High School for Girls overlapped with that of the novelist Muriel Spark. From 1940-1955, she worked for the Civil Service as a press officer. In 1946, she married Alastair Dunnett, later editor of The Scotsman . Dunnett started writing in the late 1950s. Her first novel, The Game of Kings , was published in the United States in 1961, and in the United Kingdom the year after. She published 22 books in total, including the six-part Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband. Also an accomplished professional portrait painter, Dunnett exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy on many occasions and had portraits commissioned by a number of prominent public figures in Scotland. She also led a busy life in public service, as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland, a Trustee of the Scottish National War Memorial, and Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival. She served on numerous cultural committees, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1992 she was awarded the Office of the British Empire for services to literature. She died on November 9, 2001, at the age of 78.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9134
- Title
- Niccolo Rising: The First Book in the House of Niccolo
- Author
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375704779
- ISBN 13
- 9780375704772
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Historical Romance, Historical Romance, Sagas, Historical Fiction Fiction; Historical Fiction; Italy; Medieval 10th to 15thc; ISBN: 0375704779 EAN: 9780375704772 Dorothy Dunnett Niccolo Rising: The First Book in the House of Niccolo
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