THE FLAME BEARER

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the Lee Gibbons illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm with a little bumping to the extremities, the spine very slightly rolled. The contents, with a few foxing spots to the lower fore-edge of a couple of pages, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the bright original dustwrapper that is a little rubbed and creased at the edges, and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£20 to the lower front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black marker pen on the title page "For Josephine! / Bernard Cornwell". The tenth novel in The Saxon Stories (or The Last Kingdom) series.