AETHELRED THE UNREADY

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, except for a previous owner's name and a date written neatly in ink to the upper corner of the front pastedown, the same owners initials in tiny script to the centre of the rear pastedown, and a number of tiny ink ticks beside a few entries in the bibliography, are clean and bright throughout. In the fine, unclipped dustwrapper.

Winner of the Longman-History Today Prize, 2017. "Levi Roach offers new insights into one of the darker yet most fascinating epochs in English history. His is a masterly account: a scholarly adventure story here for the first time set out in true context and vibrant detail." (Nicholas Vincent)