title: The History of the Runestaff : The Jewel in the Skull', 'the Mad God's Amulet', 'the Sword of the Dawn', 'the Runestaff (Fantasy Masterworks)
author:  Michael Moorcock 
description: The earth has grown old, her landscapes mellow, her people lost in abrooding dream. It is an age of antique cities, scientific sorcery, crystal machines, great flying engines with mechanical wings. And the armies of the Dark Empire are relentlessly taking over the once-peaceful city states, ravaging and destroying as they advance, mile by brutal mile ...The Dark Empire has humiliated and multilated Dorian Hawkmoon, but it cannot rob him of his two consuming passions: his love for Yisselda of Brass and his hatred of her ruthless suitor Meliadus. But before he can defy the Dark Empire and win the beauteous Yisselda, he must seek the Runestaff, a quest that will send him into barbaric wonder and perverse evil ...and only if he succeeds will her avert the doom of all the world ...
zlib_text: _Other Mayflower Books by Michael Moorcock_
  
  
  THE BLACK CORRIDOR
  
  
  THE JEWEL IN THE SKULL
  
  
  MAD GOD'S AMULET
  
  
  THE RUNESTAFF
  
  
  THE SWORD OF THE DAWN
  
  
  THE KNIGHT OF THE SWORDS
  
  
  THE QUEEN OF THE SWORDS
  
  
  THE KING OF THE SWORDS
  
  
  THE STEALER OF SOULS
  
  
  STORMBRINGER
  
  
  THE SINGING CITADEL
  
  
  THE ETERNAL CHAMPION
  
  
  PHOENIX IN OBSIDIAN
  
  
  THE TIME DWELLER
  
  
  BEHOLD THE MAN
  
  
  THE FINAL PROGRAMME
  
  
  COUNT BRASS
  
  
  The Champion of Garathorm
  
  
  Michael Moorcock
  
  
  The Chronicles of Castle Brass
  
  
  Being a sequel to the High History
  
  
  of the Runestaff
  
  
  _of which this is the second volume_
  
  
  Mayflower
  
  
  Granada Publishing Limited First published in 1973 by Mayflower Books Ltd
  Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2
  
  
  2NF Reprinted 1974
  
  
  A Mayflower Original
  
  
  Copyright © Michael Moorcock 1973
  
  
  Made and printed in Great Britain by
  
  
  C. Nicholls & Company Ltd
  
  
  The Philips Park Press, Manchester
  
  
  Set in Intertype Plantin
  
  
  This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade
  or otherwis