Before the Cock Crow: Vol 3 (The First-born of Egypt) by Raven, Simon - 1986-07-23

Muller, Blond & White. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Hardback. Very Good.

Muller, Blond & White, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition. Former library book but in excellent condition

London: Frederick Muller Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 058431177x . Light edge wear to dustjacket and book; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; The First-born of Egypt #3; 1.02 x 8.43 x 5.51 Inches; 274 pages; This is the third volume in Simon Raven’s First Born of Egypt saga, following Morning Star and The Face of the Waters. The story opens with Lord Canteloupe’s strange toast to ‘absent friends’. His wife Baby has recently died and Canteloupe has been left her retarded son, Lord Sarum of Old Sarum. This child is not his, but has been conceived by Major Fielding Gray. In Italy there is an illegitimate child with a legitimate claim to the estate, whom Canteloupe wants silenced. The plot also sees young Marius Stern and his school friend, Tessa Malcolm, drawn into Milo Hedley’s schemes and into a dramatic finale orchestrated by Raisley Conyngham, Milo’s teacher. .

Frederick Muller Ltd, 1986-07-24. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0200 in x 8.4300 in x 5.5100 in. First edition. Jacket is present with a little shelfwear, but nothing severe. Price on jacket flap is not clipped. Jacket under a removable mylar cover.

London: Muller, Blond & White, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. The First-born of Egypt: Volume III. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and bright, unclipped dust-jacket.

London: Muller, Blond & White Limited, 1986. First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked. Page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

London: Muller, Blond & White, 1986 Moderate markings, minor wear. Intact well protected dust jacket, slight wear to one corner and crown of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London:: Muller, Blond and White, Ltd,, (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (slight crease to laminate of dj, a publishing flaw). First printing. The third novel in this saga by this English novelist, essayist, and dramatist, who was also controversial amusing and offensive - a series whose theme is "the purposes, beliefs and ways of life of the growing young as observed, encouraged or deplored by their elders." Written primarily for money (Raven was for many year's on Blood's payroll), in these he also had "fun killing off many of the survivors from the earlier sequence, usually in absurd and/or humiliating circumstances." 250 pp. Wraparound dust jacket painting by Lawrence Toynbee.

London: Muller, Blond & White, 1986 Very tidy, just a name in front. Dust jacket is intact, slightly faded at the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall