A TAPESTRY OF TIME

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original blue paper-covered boards, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips and board corners with slight bumping. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£7.95 on the front flap).

Signed by Richard Cowper in blue ink on the title page. Book three in Cowper's 'The White Bird of Kinship' future fantasy trilogy, set a thousand years after the the melting of the polar ice caps has caused catastrophic flooding that has broken Britain into seven 'kingdom' islands and levelled European culture to a pre-industrial state. The first book in the series, 'The Road to Corlay', was nominated for the British Fantasy, Nebula and Balrog awards.