The Gryphon's Skull - first US edition

by H. N. Turteltaub

Second novel in the series that began with "Over the Wine-Dark Sea", this novel continues the adventures of Menedemos and Sostratos, two sea traders from Rhodes in the 4th century BC. Having profitably returned on the "Aphrodite" from their journey chronicled in the novel mentioned above, the two cousins find that war threatens their once free-trading world as Alexander the Great's successors war for control of the eastern Mediterranean.

Book has black boards, with the title stamped in gold on the spine. Jacket is price intact at$25.95, mylar protected, featuring the artwork of Richard B. Farrell.  (Written under the pseudonym of Harry Turtledove.)