The Flight of the Falcon
by du Maurier, Daphne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j (poor, bumping and missing parts), red boards clean and titling on spine bright (but fading
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1965. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j (poor, bumping and missing parts), red boards clean and titling on spine bright (but fading where d/j missing); pages clean and unmarked, tightly bound, a little foxing. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames during the war. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the twentieth century, and the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident...
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC57329
- Title
- The Flight of the Falcon
- Author
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1st edition, with clipped d/j (poor, bumping and missing parts), red boards clean and titling on spine bright (but fading
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
- Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, du Maurier
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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