Dorothy Dunnett THE SPRING OF THE RAM First Edition Signed
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Dorothy Dunnett THE SPRING OF THE RAM First Edition Signed
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE SPRING OF THE RAM (The House of Niccolo) by Dorothy Dunnett and published by Michael Joseph Ltd., London in 1987. Signed and inscribed by Dorothy Dunnett on the half title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine) with no more than minor wear to the dust jacket, which is protected in an archival sleeve and is price clipped (but with the publisher's price sticker on the front flap above the clip). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions. There is slight tanning to the pages.
Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespies 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 The Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband.
She also wrote a novel about the real Macbeth called King Hereafter (1982), and a series of mystery novels centred around Johnson Johnson, a portrait painter/spy. 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.
The Spring of the Ram is the second book in the House of Niccolo series.
"With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccol? series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
In 1461, Nicholas is in Florence. Backed by none other than Cosimo de Medici, he will sail the Black Sea to Trebizond, last outpost of Byzantium, and the last jewel missing from the crown of the Ottoman Empire. But trouble lies ahead. Nicholass stepdaughterat the tender age of thirteenhas eloped with his rival in trade: a Machiavellian Genoese who races ahead of Nicholas, sowing disaster at every port. And time is of the essence: Trebizond may fall to the Turks at any moment. Crackling with wit, breathtakingly paced, The Spring of the Ram is a pyrotechnic blend of scholarship and narrative shimmering with the scents, sounds, colors, and combustible emotions of the 15th century."
469 pages.
ISBN: 978 0 7181 2803 6
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