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Author Name: Lindsey, William
Title: The Severed Mantle
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Size: 5 5/8" Wide x 8" Tall
Publisher: Boston, MA and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1909
Signed by Author: Signed & Inscribed By Author
Seller ID: 902238
Tight copy, Signed and Inscriped by author with a 1918 date, Vintage Metro Goldwyn Mayer stamped front & rear pastedowns and adjacent pages, occasional very neat pencil endpage proof type notations, margin marks, and short underlings, minor edge wear and rubbing, light spinal end edge fraying, lightly shelf bumped cornertips, minor cover rubbing, light interior page age darkening, slight endpage soiling. Features a tissue covered color frontis and several color illustrations by Arthur L. Keller. Signature is as follows To Stuart W------- from William Lindsay, Boston, May 16 --- 1918", the last part of the receiver's name and the middle of the date are both hard to read. A tale of Provence in days of the Troubadours. ""May God help the right! En garde, messieurs." A one-against-all battle sequence for the Troubadour-turned-knight in defense of saints & a demoiselle. Though confessing he is a singer of songs & no warrior, Rainbaut never wavers, & as his would-be slayers fall back, he jibes, "Are you so easily satisfied, my brave men of Vercelli? You do not like the tune a troubaour plans with his sword?" 453 pages + the rear book ads.
Troubaour, Fiction Historical 12th Century Christian Faith, Crusades, Spain, The Church, Intrigue, Adventure, Europe, Nobels, Knights, Holy War, Love , Traveling Musician, Valor
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