Ex-Libris - first US edition

by Ross King - signed

London bookseller Isaac Inchbold receives a mystifying summons from the mysterious Lady Marchamont of Pontifex Hall. She offers him the vast sum of 100 to recover a single rare book stolen from her father's once-magnificent library.

A literary thriller combining the layered, multifaceted narrative style of Iain Pears' Instance of the Fingerpost with Dorothy Dunnett's broad-canvas grasp of English history. The story, set in 1660s London, sparkles with intrigue and adventure, offering a heady mix of literature, history, politics, and philosophy and taking readers from ancient Rome to the sack of Constantinople and England's Civil War. 

Book has black boards with spine stamped in gold; fine; author's signature appears on the title page; jacket is fine, price-intact at $26.00; mylar-protected.