HARDBACK "WITH DUST JACKET," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1949* Publisher: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: Buff cloth, scarlet title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, small weave faults to cloth on front board. VG* Jacket condition: Red & black text to cream dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 9/- net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small tears at top edge. Spine lightly aged. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, minimal marks to text, slight foxing to end papers and fore edge, otherwise no tanning to contents. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 223 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A fantasy tale of a war between two giants in the First Century A.D in pre-Norman scotland. This provides a background to a love story between a poet and a princess. Political allegory, about the conflicts generated by the giants of ancient Scotland. Linklater?s 12th novel about the conflicts of the giant Celts.* A NEAR VG copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced by dust jacket wear and slight ageing to GD++*

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From the author of the acclaimed national bestseller Amagansett comes an even more remarkable novel set in the Tuscan hills: the story of two murders, four hundred years apart-and the ties that bind them together.Adam Banting, a somewhat aimless young scholar at Cambridge University, is called to his professor's office one afternoon and assigned a special summer project: to write a scholarly monograph about a famous garden built in the 1500s. Dedicated to the memory of Signor Docci's dead wife, the garden is a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. But during his three-week sojourn at the villa, Adam comes to suspect that clues to a murder are buried in the strange iconography of the garden: the long-dead Signor Docci most likely killed his wife and filled her memorial garden with pointers as to both the method and the motive of his crime.As the mystery of the garden unfolds, Adam finds himself drawn into a parallel intrigue. Through his evolving relationship with the lady of the house-the ailing, seventy-something Signora Docci-he finds clues to yet another possible murder, this one much more recent. The signora's eldest son was shot by Nazi officers on the third floor of the villa, and her husband, now dead, insisted that the area be sealed and preserved forever. Like the garden, the third-floor rooms are frozen in time. Delving into his subject, Adam begins to suspect that his summer project might be a setup. Is he really just the na•ve student, stumbling upon clues, or is Signora Docci using him to discover for herself the true meaning of the villa's murderous past?

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3970
Title: A Spell for Old Bones
Author: Linklater, Eric
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG/GD
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0224604171
ISBN 13: 9780224604178
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Place of Publication: London Uk 228
Date Published: 1949-12-01

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