The Apothecary Rose (Signed first edition)
Signed by Candace Robb, 1994, her first book and the first in the Owen Archer series
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Printing Details
First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 15.5cm, 369pp.
Signed directly to the title page by Candace Robb.
The first novel in the Owen Archer series, and the author's first book.
Christmastide, 1363-and, at an abbey in York, two pilgrims die mysteriously from a herbal remedy. Suspicious, the Archbishop sends for Owen Archer, a Welshman with the charm of the devil, who's lost one eye to the wars in France and must make a new career as an honest spy.
Masquerading as an apprentice to Apothecary Nicholas Wilton, whose shop dispensed the fatal potion, Owen's dark curls, leather eyepatch and gold earring intrigue Wilton's wife. But is this lovely woman a murderess? and what links the Wiltons to bumbling Brother Wulfstan, ascetic Archdeacon Anselm and his weaselly agent Potter Digby, and the ragged midwife Magda the Riverwoman? Answers as slippery as the frozen cobblestones draw Owen into a dangerous drama of old scandals and tragedies, obsession and unholy love...
Condition
A very good solid copy of this first edition. The pages are age-toned but the inner binding is sound, the wrapper has not been price-clipped and the book is free from inscription apart from the author's. The only fault is a bookstore's security tag has been adhered to the inside of the wrapper and is now visible to the outside rear panel of the wrapper.
ISBN
9780434001347
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Price
£35.00
