London: Penguin Books. Very Good-; Light reading creases and shelf wear, front endpapers heavily . foxed with additional foxing to edges of reading block, small ink stamp to . front endaper. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork detail . from A Sultan Receiving Tribute by Giovanni Antonio Guardi. Heavy book . and priced accordingly.. 2000. Reprint. Paperback. Eighth Printing; The House of Niccolo Series; Vol. 2; 592 pages; Series charting the attempt of a dyer's apprentice from Bruges to better himself in the mercantile world of the Italian Renaissance. 1461, and Nicholas is in Florence about to embark for Trebizond seeking silks for his patron Cosimo de Medici. ; 0140113592 .

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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: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27818
Title: The Spring Of The Ram
Author: Dunnett, Dorothy
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-; Light reading creases and shelf wear, front endpapers heavily foxed with additional foxing to edges of reading bloc
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0140113592
ISBN 13: 9780140113594
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2000
Bookseller catalogs: Historical Fiction;

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...