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Funeral Games: The Combat of Alexander's Heirs
by Renault, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394520688
- ISBN 13
- 9780394520681
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1981. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0394520688 . Quarter bound in maroon cloth over beige boards, gilt lettering on cover and spine, maps on endpapers. . Head of spine lightly sunned, red Random House logo stamped on bottom edge, else fine. Unlipped dust jacket shows light shelf-wear, spine mildly sunned, else near fine. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xi, 335, (1) pp .
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16264
- Title
- Funeral Games: The Combat of Alexander's Heirs
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394520688
- ISBN 13
- 9780394520681
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0394520688, Fiction;, Literature;, Novels;, Historical Fiction
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- Gilt
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