Sword At Sunset
by Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
$25.00$17.50
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Third impression. 480 pages. Map end papers. Ex-libris bookplate on ffep. Slight lean. Dust jacket edge and mark shadow on the cover. It is a speculative 'historical' version of the legends of King Arthur. It is also Sutcliff's first novel written in first-person perspective. Prefaced by the poem "Hic Jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rexque Futurus" by Francis Brett Young (The Island, 1944), and an author's note outlining her intent to write an historical account of Arthur, while retaining a few traditions familiar from the Arthurian romances that "have the atmosphere of truth."; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8933
- Title
- Sword At Sunset
- Author
- Sutcliff, Rosemary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Historical - Fiction - King Arthur, Fiction - Adventure -
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General; Antiquarian & Collectible Books; History: British, Russian & European;
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