1980 First Bantam Edition. Not ex-lib. Cover shows moderate edge wear and light creasing. Spine is not creased, but has early signs of buckling and a slight slant. Text clean. Pages age-toned but clean and complete. BInding tight. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Towering over a world of slavery and savage splendors He began as a shipyard slave. He killed to win his freedom. And rose to become seafaring master of a trading empire that reached from ancient Tyre, across the teeming Mediterranean world, to the magnificent city of Carthage, ruled by Baal, a deity served by human sacrifice. Now, in a monumental saga of adventure and sensual pagan pleasures - a story as vast and exotic as Shogun - the Swordsman voyages across uncharted seas to the strange unknown land of the Maya...where he is greeted as a golden god from the sea. Subject code: