Fine condition.Viking,1993.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks,crease and scratch on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.The book is new with a small nick and light shelf wear on the outer edge of the pages,small nick and crease on the edge of the pages.282pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: Set in an imaginary country somewhere between Egypt and Libya, this book looks at the choices and lives of two central characters - Howard Beamish, a palaeontologist, and Lucy Faulkner, a journalist. Their stories are bound with tales of Callimbia from the time of Berenice, Cleopatra's sister.