first edition
1969 · Garden City, NY
by De Camp, L. Sprague
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 288pp. Fifteen centuries before Marco Polo, Eudoxos of Kyzikos opened the first direct trading route to the East. Seeking wealth he made several voyages across the Indian Ocean and Africa. But he sought more in those lands than wealth; he hoped desperately for relief from the terrible affliction that forced his wife to desert him.Bound in blue cloth spine lettering gilt, some fading to edges, book leaning just a bit, A very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket, some toning to jacket, Doubleday sticker to rear panel.
(Inventory #: 001591)