Imperial Purple

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Very good. Advanced, uncorrected proof; 9 1/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 1-324; red wraps, printed and ruled in black; tiny nick to tail of spine and a faint indentation to bottom edge of back wrap and last few leaves from a removed paperclip; in very good to near fine condition.The story of Demetrias, a silk weaver in Tyre, in the eastern Roman Empire, is an example of the historical fiction author Gillian Bradshaw (1956 - ) is known for - as many of her novels are set in classical antiquity - Roman Britan, Imperial Rome, Ancient Egypt, etc.