780 pages. The red boards are faded, as is the title on the spine and there is a neat ownership inscription on the front paste down, else clean, unmarked and solid. First British Edition. " Dynasty of Death was the debut novel of the Anglo-American writer Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985). When Caldwell submitted the manuscript to Maxwell Perkins in 1937, she was an unknown housewife from Buffalo, New York. Dynasty of Death launched her prolific career. The novel is set in Windsor, Pennsylvania, a fictional mill town on the Allegheny River north of Pittsburgh.It is an epic multigenerational saga, stretching from 1837 to the eve of World War I, about the Bouchard and Barbour families, who grow their small munitions factory into a great international corporation." (Wikipedia)