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Funeral Games The combat of Alexander's heirs

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Funeral Games The combat of Alexander's heirs

by Renault, Mary [pseudonym of Mary Challans]

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9780394520681
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. Hardcover. xi, 335p., endpaper maps, Slight lean to spine, hint of soiling, else very good first edition quarter-cloth backing, boards. Dust jacket shows some slight fading along spine. Young 3263. Another entry in Renault's series of books about Alexander the Great.

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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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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
14302
Title
Funeral Games The combat of Alexander's heirs
Author
Renault, Mary [pseudonym of Mary Challans]
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
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ISBN 10
0394520688
ISBN 13
9780394520681
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1981
Bookseller catalogs
Gay Studies; Modern first edition; Lesbiana; 1980S;

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