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To Lie with Lions (House of Niccolo/Dorothy Dunnett, Vol 6)
by Dorothy Dunnett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394586298
- ISBN 13
- 9780394586298
- Seller
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About This Item
First American hardcover edition with dust jacket, published by Knopf, 1996. This is the sixth volume in the 'House of Niccolo' series of eight books. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. No writing, no highlighting, no former ownership marks. The dust jacket has a 1/2" closed tear, back panel, bottom left side at the edge. The dust jacket has been protected with a library quality clear, removable cover though so the tear is not noticeable. There are a few very small dots of age tanning to the edges of the text block. This is not a library discard, not a remainder copy. We have more Dorothy Dunnett listed too. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19-134
- Title
- To Lie with Lions (House of Niccolo/Dorothy Dunnett, Vol 6)
- Author
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394586298
- ISBN 13
- 9780394586298
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- house of niccolo, historical fiction, venice, florence
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction; 19Q1;
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