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HOWARD, ALAN: : The FLIGHT of BIRDS. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK.BILLINGSHURST,WEST SUSSEX.RAVEN'S QUILL (publishing) LTD.,2007.

ISBN 9780955548628

UK,12mo French flaps,p/back Original, SIGNED,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.French flaps are a design in which the cover includes an extra folded piece on each side inside, which gives the publisher more room to detail the book,and also gives a built-in bookmark to fold into place.] NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/ purchase - but SIGNED at a later event - so no owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black ink dedication, signature+date thus: 'To Judith enter here the strange tales of the Shabby Tattler (author's signatuure) 12 July 11' to front free endpaper,and no price clip or removal - absence of publisher's price! Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,matt,monochrome illustrated front+ spine of card covers with gold-coloured lettering to front, similar lettering and white letters to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases,rear cover with b/w repeated illustration and story synopsis to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine -no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation. UK,12mo French flaps,p/back Original, SIGNED,1st edn,7-398pp [paginated] includes 62 chapters,plus 23 chapters in Daist Chain and The Tale of Boy-who-is Fish,notes as last page; plus [unpaginated] SIGNED front free endpaper, half-title+title pages,2pp blanks,and 2pp blanks at the rear too. The tale of the haunting of a girl by the ghost of her own dead mother.Encountering this ghost imprisoned in the East wing of the Great House,a wing long-since rebuilt after a fire in Elizabethan times,Kate is gradually compelled to unravel the terrible story of this place. Through the Tales of a one-eyed vagabond,Shabby Tattler,Kate is drawn into a past in which she finds herself a living victim,trapped by circumstance and helpless to alter the terrifying unfolding of events. This is the first in a Gothic Trilogy of Tales through which,in a 'Danse Macabre' moves the dark enignatic figure of 'Shabby Tattler',the Cunning Man.Tale-teller and myth-maker is he,or puppet-master of these strange plays,conjuring appearances and disappearances,scenes of tragedy and comedy; manipulator of souls with strings invisible. 'The Toadman' forms the second part and 'Reprise' the third. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p FREE. Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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