Author: Bradshaw, Gillian
Title: Imperial Purple
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Advanced, uncorrected proof; 9 1/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 1-324; red wraps, printed and ruled in black; tiny nick to tail of spine and a faint indentation to bottom edge of back wrap and last few leaves from a removed paperclip; in very good to near fine condition. The story of Demetrias, a silk weaver in Tyre, in the eastern Roman Empire, is an example of the historical fiction author Gillian Bradshaw (1956 - ) is known for - as many of her novels are set in classical antiquity - Roman Britan, Imperial Rome, Ancient Egypt, etc. Very good .

Keywords: Historicalfiction, Rome


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