First edition first print hardback of THE SWORD OF DAMASCUS by Richard Blake and published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2011. Signed, lined and dated "With Best Wishes" by Blake on the title page.

The book is in near fine condition (green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine. The book is in a near fine unclipped dust jacket (protected in an archival sleeve) which has light creasing to the bottom of the spine. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.

Richard Blake's thrilling new novel takes his hero Aelric into a world where the once-mighty Byzantine empire is a shattered rump and its richest provinces have been laid waste.

It is 686 AD and the armies of Arabia have overrun the African and Syrian provinces. Meekal the Magnificent, the Roman turncoat who now rules Damascus, dreams of conquering Constantinople itself.


424 pages plus Acknowledgements.

ISBN: 9781444709667

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