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Gemini: The House of Niccolo
by Dunnett, Dorothy
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0718140834
- ISBN 13
- 9780718140830
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HARDBACK "CONCLUSION TO THE HOUSE OF NICCOLO SERIES," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 3rd.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Michael Joseph. * Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no shelf wear or visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Coloured illustrated dust wrapper showing a procession of courtiers with banners & pennants in the snow. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. No age or shelf wear. Spine not faded. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. B/w line drawn maps of Europe and Scotland to end-papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal grubby marks to top and fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 728 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Scotland 1477. To the aristocracy of traders that country lies far to the North of the real world ? France, Burgundy, the Empire, Venice ? with its subtle and deadly interplay of commerce and politics, intrigue and conflict. Wary delight greets the re-appearance in Edinburgh of Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and merchant. Four years ago, without explanation, Nicholas closed all his venture in Scotland and abandoned his friends, having secretly, shockingly, tried to undermine the whole community. Now in an attempt at redress, he is back. His friends hope (cautiously) that this time he will master himself, will prove true. His enemies just want to kill him! If he survives, he must make a choice. He does not know that before that can happen, every skill he ever had will be tested.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS and a fine dust jacket now in clear un-attached protective jacket.* House of Niccolo Series.
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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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8932
- Title
- Gemini: The House of Niccolo
- Author
- Dunnett, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edition, 3rd. Impression.
- ISBN 10
- 0718140834
- ISBN 13
- 9780718140830
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 768
- Date Published
- 2000-06-01
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