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Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Paperback. near fine paperback, Mick van Houten cover 1st printing. Two teenagers set out to decipher the mystery of the eldritch stone found in the desert by their merchant father. Made of an unknown substance, the stone leads to death and destruction.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. Sci-fi fanzine. Stapled wraps. Nice condition overall.

Paperback. near fine paperback, Jon Sullivan cover 1st printing. King Leth of Enchantment's Edge finds himself stranded with his two young children in the empty domain of Orbus. Orbus reveals her husband's plight to Queen Issul, and she embarks on a perilous journey to save them.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First UK Edition. first printing 5 tiny spots to the foredge. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Good DJ with light wear.

Paperback. near fine paperback, Mike van Houten cover 1st printing. The Beast of Rull threatens to extend his empire far beyond the bounds of Khimmur. Shadd, the Pale Duke, is tormented at having been manipulated by his half-brother the Beast.

Paperback. near fine paperback, Mick van Houten cover 1st printing. The only hope of saving the princess Madia from Tyrr, the Dark Mage, and his demon forces is for Frost and his team of Subartan Guards to find the Demon Blade and persuade the swamp things that now possess it to let it go.

Paperback. near fine paperback, Mike van Houten cover 1st printing. Ronbas Dinbig is a successful merchant-adventurer, womanizer and Foreign Minister to the Royal Court of Khimmur. He is also an initiate of applied ritual sorcery.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. First thus (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #672). Near fine in very good publisher's slipcase. A few scuffs and smudges on slipcase, spine a bit toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1990 Hard Cover. xix, 151 pp. Includes publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with color photographic plates. Strikingly bound in cloth decorated with a mosaic pattern. Translated by G.A. Williamson. Introduction by Philip Ziegler. The text was written around ad 550 and was first published in France in 1623. The present translation was made in 1966. The plates reproduce contemporary tessellated pavements and murals. In addition, there are maps on page 145 and a genealogical table on page 143. Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent late antique Byzantine Greek scholar from Palaestina Prima. Accompanying the Byzantine general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the principal Byzantine historian of the 6th century, writing the History of the Wars, the Buildings, and the Secret History. He is commonly classified as the last major historian of the ancient Western world. Procopius's now famous Anecdota also known as Secret History was discovered centuries later at the Vatican Library in Rome and published in Lyon by Niccolo Alamanni in 1623. Its existence was already known from the Suda, which referred to it as Procopius's "unpublished works." The Secret History covers roughly the same years as the first seven books of The History of the Wars and appears to have been written after they were published. Current consensus generally dates it to 550 or 558, although others set it as late as 562. In the eyes of many scholars, the Secret History reveals an author who had become deeply disillusioned with Emperor Justinian, his wife Theodora, the general Belisarius, and his wife Antonina. The work claims to expose the secret springs of their public actions, as well as the private lives of the emperor and his entourage. Justinian is portrayed as cruel, venal, prodigal, and incompetent. In one passage, it is even claimed that he was possessed by demonic spirits or was himself a demon: And some of those who have been with Justinian at the palace late at night, men who were pure of spirit, have thought they saw a strange demoniac form taking his place. One man said that the Emperor suddenly rose from his throne and walked about, and indeed he was never wont to remain sitting for long, and immediately Justinian's head vanished, while the rest of his body seemed to ebb and flow; whereat the beholder stood aghast and fearful, wondering if his eyes were deceiving him. But presently he perceived the vanished head filling out and joining the body again as strangely as it had left it. Similarly, the Theodora of the Secret History is a garish portrait of vulgarity and insatiable lust juxtaposed with cold-blooded self-interest, shrewishness, and envious and fearful mean-spiritedness. Among the more titillating (and dubious) revelations in the Secret History is Procopius's account of Theodora's thespian accomplishments: Often, even in the theatre, in the sight of all the people, she removed her costume and stood nude in their midst, except for a girdle about the groin: not that she was abashed at revealing that, too, to the audience, but because there was a law against appearing altogether naked on the stage, without at least this much of a fig-leaf. Covered thus with a ribbon, she would sink down to the stage floor and recline on her back. Slaves to whom the duty was entrusted would then scatter grains of barley from above into the calyx of this passion flower, whence geese, trained for the purpose, would next pick the grains one by one with their bills and eat. On the other hand, it has been argued that Procopius prepared the Secret History as an exaggerated document out of fear that a conspiracy might overthrow Justinian's regime, which - as a kind of court historian - might be reckoned to include him. The unpublished manuscript would then have been a kind of insurance, which could be offered to the new ruler as a way to avoid execution or exile after the coup. If this hypothesis were correct, the Secret History would not be proof that Procopius hated Justinian or Theodora.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Condition: 'Fair' Notes: Creases to covers.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Spine is creased, sticker pull to corner of front cover , dealer stamp to opening leaf. A good reading copy. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 151 pages, an attractive hardback in Fine condition, as is usual with Folio Society, it is housed in a slipcase.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Mike Van Houten (illustratore). First Paperback. A very good copy of this book. Some reading creases to the spine. The covers are uncreased. 589 clean pages. Excellent cover art work. - Ronbas Dinbig is a sucessful merchant-adverturer , spy , accomplished womanizer and Foreign Minister to the Royal Court of Khimmur. A man of many talents , he tells us modestly , for he is capable of leaving his body and entering the Realms of Non-Being where he interacts with the spirit population. Ages of precarious deadlock between nations of Rull are coming to an end. A mysterious force is setting the Khimmur against its neighbours with cataclysmic consequences for the whole continent. Battles , skirmishes and deadly intrigue ensue. But the hand that pushes these once-peaceful countries towards tragic and bloody confrontation is not that of any mere mortal. -----. Book.

Softcover. Condizione: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. In the city of Ravenscrag a baby is about to be born. This baby, son to Lord Flarefist and Lady Sheerquine, will set in train a series of bloody and horrific events, culminating in the summoning of a force with the power to destroy Ravenscrag and all in it. Into this scene rides Ronbas Dinbig, merchant-adventurer, who sees a way to make money - and to make love to a beautiful woman. But Dinbig little suspects that he will be forced, by dint of sorcerous talents and at the peril of his life, to search for the baby when it disappears, leaving a monster in its place. And then Flarefist's only other child, the mysterious teenage girl, Moonblood, also vanishes. Darkness draws around Ravenscrag, and Dinbig battles for the survival of body and soul as he disentangles the age-old prophecy and bane which has reached out to bring disaster.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 6.25" x 9.5"; 363pp; blue cloth with gilt titles; dustwrapper; very good/very good; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Previous shop stamp inside; tanned. 312 pages.

paperback / softback. Condizione: vg++. vg++ 1993 Collins; First Paperback edition book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

paperback / softback. Condizione: fine. fine 1997 Harper Paperbacks; New edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.