Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman in a new archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the straight spine and front board design. Also, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s name only on the first free end paper. Also, no other marks, inscriptions or other signs of ownership inside. The interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
The long-awaited sequel to Sharon Kay Penman’s acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance recounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition-and betrayal. He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich.
Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
