The Emperor's Winding Sheet
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240pp. A couple of charts and maps. Black cloth covered boards. 1977 reprint of 1974 first edition. Boards are sharp, bright, and square with just a hint of rounding at spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, art work by Marjorie Campbell (gently rubbed at edges, short closed tear on upper edge of verso). A boy experiences the fall of Constantinople, after slipping from a tree and meeting a man reading a purple parchment with letters of gold.
