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WALLER**, ROBERT JAMES: : A THOUSAND COUNTRY ROADS

LONDON.TIME WARNER BOOKS,2002.

ISBN 0316724378.

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around matt  background with athumbnail onlay glossy monochrome country road's scenic photograph illustrated front of dw/dj with capitalised,embossed bronze gilt-lettered and glossy,embossed,brown-lettered author name; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title and author name as front's but blocked and flat printed respectively,and publisher's b/w+grey illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with critics' brown+black lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright crisp,clean without foxing/spotting ; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked bronze gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip,and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-181pp [paginated] includes 15 chaptersand Final Notes; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a poem, and Acknowledgements with Author's Note to its reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 20+ year-old age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults.                                The conclusion to 'The BRIDGES of MADISON COUNTY' - see my book ID rja157 for a UK,HB+ dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn thus.             Robert Kincaid is a man with little but memories - memories of a lonely existence lived mostly on the road and memeories of Frnacesca Johnson,the woman whose passion he stirred so briefly and so powerfully.Searching for something undefined,something to give meaning to the rest of his life,Kincaid takes to the road again in what becomes a journey of discovery and surprise. With his dog Highway beside him in an old truck named Harry,Kincaid begins a long winding run back to Roseman Bridge in Madison County,Iowa, returning to the place of his great love affair. On the expedition he calls Last Time,Kincaid wanders through Oregon,northern California, eastwards to the Dakotas,and on to Iowa.Along the way,a chance encounter with a woman from his distant past reveals another dimension of his life he could not have imagined.                  Meanwhile,still living her own solitary life, Francesca often visits Roseman Bridge and reflects on her days and nights with Robert kincaid.Cherishing the memory of the strange wandering man,she too decides it is time to search for the person who changed her world. . . Robert James Waller's unforgettable tale of the love affair between a wandering photographer and the conventional wife of an Iowa farmer.   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. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations 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. **

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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