Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.
Gemini : The Eighth Book of the House of Niccolo (House of Niccolo Ser.)
by Dunnett, Dorothy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679454780
- ISBN 13
- 9780679454786
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 2000. A very nice copy with no marks or tears. Some wear to edges and corners of book and jacket. Binding tight, pages clean and bright.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mylared.
Synopsis
Dorothy Dunnett was born in 1923 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Her time at Gillespie's 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 Lymond Chronicles and the eight-part Niccolo Series, and co-authored another volume with her husband. 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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031288
- Title
- Gemini : The Eighth Book of the House of Niccolo (House of Niccolo Ser.)
- Author
- Dunnett, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679454780
- ISBN 13
- 9780679454786
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- SCOTLAND FICTION FLEURY NICHOLAS FICTITIOUS CHARACTER ACTION ADVENTURE HISTORICAL EUROPE
Terms of Sale
after-words bookstore
We accept Visa, MC, AMEX, and checks in USD only. Payment is due in full before shipment. Shipping cost: $5.50 media mail in the continental U.S.A. for 2 books or less. After that, $.50 for each additional book. Priority mail is based on size and weight of book. Cost starts at 10.00 but will be adjusted for smaller books that fit into Priority Mail boxes and envelopes. Oversized and/or heavy books may cost more. UPS/RPS or Fedex available at additional cost upon request. All shipments to Mexico or Canada over four (4) pounds is subject to rate increase. Returns will be accepted on a limited basis. If any item arrives and is not in the condition described on Biblio, or is not the edition listed on the website, we will refund both the item and shipping both ways - upon receipt of the return package. Otherwise, our used book sales are final.
About the Seller
after-words bookstore
Biblio member since 2006
Chicago, Illinois
About after-words bookstore
We are an open shop with 55,000 volumes. About 1/4 of our inventory is comprised of new books, the rest are used and out of print.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Collecting P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum was not only one of the founders of modern day circus performance, he was also the author of the second most printed book of the 19th century. Learn about collecting P. T. Barnum books and ephemera here.
Handling and Storing Books
Take care of your old books — vintage, antiquarian, and fine — with these tips from a professional bookseller
