Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. \ First Edition 1989 Wm. Morrow. First Printing with full number line.
NF hardcover with bright boards with a few spots and a few wrinkles on back board, mild foxing to page blocks, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends and lightly rubbed corners. One very small mark on FEP. No other marks or inscriptions inside. Pages clean and bright. VG un-clipped dust jacket with moderate to heavy edge wear and a price tag on the front flap. Looks great in new Brodart archival wrap.
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.
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