Buy this book on-line HORWOOD,WILLIAM**: : DUNCTON RISINGLONDON.HARPER COLLINS,1992. ISBN 0002239418.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,but two diagonal creases in vicinity (folded prior to removal?) of publisher price.
Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by John Barber,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges or corners - no major nicks or tears
present.Top edge lightly grubbed and lightly aged/tanned - as usual/normal - fore-edge less so and minimally thumbed; contents bright,tight and clean.
Publisher's original bright,clean,navy blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,both head+
foot of same minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,foot and bottom edges of both bds minimally water-stained/
affected,and immaculate plain white eps.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-500pp [paginated] plus publisher advert for hardback title 'Duncton Stone' for Spring 1993 to rear,includes half-title+title pages,b/w line illus map frntis,character lists from Duncton Tales and The Duncton Chronicles,contents list,prologue,Pts 1-V comprising 35 chapters,and an epilogue.
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A wintry dawn,and a hurrying mole. . . As cruel flurries of wind harry the highest and most ancient trees of Duncton Wood,timid Pumpkin reaches the Stone to pray for help.Only he and the venerable Master Librarian Stour have been left to defend Moledom's greatest library against the Newborn Inquisitors who have taken over the system.
But Pumpkin's best hopes rest with Privet,scholar and scribemole,and her adopted son Whillan,who have escaped from Duncton Wood in search of the Book of Silence,seventh and last of the ancient books of Moledom.To find it,Privet and her
friends must go to Caer Caradoc,centre of the Newborns' power,and face their sinister leader,Thripp of Blagrove Slide.
Harder still,she must reveal the grim secrets of her past and give up all hope of reconciliation with the only mole she has ever truly loved: Rooster,Master of the Delve.And only then can she embark on the most daunting journey of all. . . .
Horwood's 'Duncton Rising,Volume Two of The Book of Silence',is an unforgettable tale of courage,love and faith which will introduce countless new readers to Duncton
Wood and its brave moles.See also rja25307
for 1st volume in Books of Silence series.
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