0441792375 Mass Market paperback format, 1978 originally published, this Ace edition Nov. 1987, 165 pages, Ace publishers. Covers have slight creasing and wear and there is some loss of the black ink where the front cover meets the spine from repeated folding, typical used paperback wear. Small black rubber stamp on bottom outside edge of book. Usually ships with USPS delivery confirmation. From the back of the book: THE SLASHING SCIMITAR OF THE MAN THEY CALLED THE FALSE KURD. Beyond the cloud-walled Pass of Akbar, where the high sands are strewn with the bones of warriors, the Old Ones still whisper of the outsider whose Hawks-head blade led a desert band to battle against an Empire - for a treasure as vast as all Asia! *