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WATERS,SARAH**: : THE NIGHT WATCH.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.VIRAGO PRESS,2006.

ISBN 1844082466.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's black ink signature - without dedication or date - to foot of title-page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.{Dual British/Canadian pricing,which,it is believed,indicates an export copy - these precede the UK trade issue.] Blue background with silver gilt+ white and orange and blue letters,with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corner - no major nicks or tears.Head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.All edges and corners appear lightly rubbed and distressed,but this is how the book was printed - to give it the contemporary appearance of a wartime,paper-rationed conformity standard produced book.Top edge bright and clean, fore-edges bright but with some light, small sporadic spotting/splashing;contents bright,tight and clean despite this - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Dw/dj internally stained to both inner flaps edges - bds beneath unaffected though.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped white ink letters to spine/backstrip,title impressed to upper bd,and immaculate orange patterned eps.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - not really as bad as it reads! 8vo,4-472pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,SIGNED title-page,dedication, separator pages and part unpaginated acknowledgements page(s). Moving back through the 1940's,through air raids,blacked-out streets,illicit liasons,sexual adventure,to end with its beginning in 1941,'The Night Watch' is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past - drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay,who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle,now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching. . . . Helen,clever,sweet,much loved,harbours a painful secret. . . . Viv,glamour girl,is stubbornly,even foolishly loyal to her soldier lover. . . Duncan,an apparent innocent,has had his own demons to fight during the war.Their lives and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways.War leads to strange alliances. Tender,tragic and beautifully poignant, set against a backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary,here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises and twists.'The Night Watch' is thrilling.A towering achievement. Waters has been short-listed for both the Orange Prize and the Man Booker Prize,has won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction,in 2002 has been British author of the year three times,and chosen as one of Granta's best young novelists in 2003.Two of her novels, 'Fingersmith' and 'Tipping the Velvet', have been adapted for BBC-TV. Since April,2013,the UK Post Office has increased it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances, dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So, please contact seller,because of weight/value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNATURE - without dedication.

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