Avalon.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.. Book Club Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue binding; the top edge tint is green; owner's name written on the front endpaper, a Good book, with a Fair dust jacket.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Map endpapers. Description: Panoramic dust jacket art by William Hofmann. An historical novel set in the last quarter of the tenth century. ''Rumon, descendant of Charlemagne and of King Alfred, was a searcher. He had visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthur's Avalon 'where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow.' Rumon came from Provence to visit the court of his cousin, King Edgar, and so began a quest that was to last his whole life, take him to far places, bring him sorrow, joy, privation and honor. Merewyn grew up in savage Cornwall -- a lonely girl, sustained by stubborn courage and by pride in her descent from great King Arthur. Chance or fate in the form of shipwreck, brought them together and from that hour their lives were intertwined, The stories of Rumon and Merewyn are spun out against a broad background of history and place, which include Iceland, Greenland, North America, an England harried by Vikings; St Dunstan's effort to reform the English church; Eric the Red's ill-conceived colonization of Greenland. Is a saga of yearning and mystery, tragedy, saintliness, and love.'' Rear gutter code ''17H'' indicates a printing date of April, 1966.