Description

Hardcover, in bright yellow cloth, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. All edges blue. 366 pages. Signed by author on blank verso of half-title page, with her usual flourish beneath. First edition with no other printings listed. An historical fantasy centering on Ginevra di Gasparo, a woman banished from 14th century Florence for engaging in gemstone magic to heal. With the arrival of the plague she is summoned home but soon realizes it is not for her curative powers. A very nice signed copy of the author’s first novel. No previous ownership marks. Both book and dust-jacket fine.