Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses)

Fine condition used 2016 First Edition/ First Print Hardback with intact unclipped Dust Jacket. Published by Michael Joseph/ Penguin Books, London. Publication Print Number-line: 001. Author: Conn Iggulden. ISBN: 9780718181420. Approx dims: 240mm h x 160mm w x 42mm d. Intact clean condition pictorial dust jacket with slight creasing to edges, slight signs of handling. Intact DJ spine. Dust Jacket over very good condition white cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 453 clean, slightly off white inside pages of English text, no inscriptions. Illustrated with a colour map inside the front cover and weapons drawings to inside back cover, b&w maps, family trees. Page ends slightly tanned. Image shown is actual book for sale. Synopsis: England, 1470. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. The Yorkist king Edward IV is driven out of England, his wife and children forced to seek sanctuary from the House of Lancaster. Yet rage and humiliation prick Edward back to greatness. He lands at Ravenspur, with a half-drowned army and his brother Richard at his side. Though every hand is against them, though every city gate is shut, they have come home. The brothers York will not go quietly into banishment. Instead, they choose to attack. Yet neither Edward nor Richard realize that the true enemy of York has yet to reveal himself.…