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REEVE**, PHILIP: : LARKLIGHT OR THE REVENGE OF THE WHITE SPIDERS! OR TO SATURN'S RINGS AND BACK! [Author SIGNED & doodle.]

LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Plc,2007.

ISBN 9780747584407.

UK,12mo p/back,author SIGNED+doodled,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.This edn the true first UK p/back,1st edn and not the p/back re-issue of 2018.] FINE-. No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten black ink dedication thus: 'To Kellie, with all best wishes from Philip Reeve (plus) a doodle of a pig passing wind with PToOop! wording' to the title page.Bright,crisp,clean,vibrant,glossy, wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by David Wyatt,illustrated card covers with glossy, embossed white-lettered author+illustrator names,bright,crisp,capitalised and embossed silver gilt-lettered title and other critic's white lettered review to front cover,white-lettered author+publisher names and embossed silver gilt-lettered title to spine/backstrip which has part-read creasing to front portion of p/back,rear cover with critic's orange+green lettered review and other white lettered prose extract/synopsis.The insides of both covers with brown+white illustrations of contemporary Victorian-style adverts.[N.B. These were dropped from the later 2018 reissue of this title.] Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - miniscule corner tip curl,minimal,minor,faint superficial scoring to either cover - but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright aand clean without foxing/spotting or toning; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.UK,12mo p/back,author SIGNED+ dooddled,1st edn,1-399pp [paginated] includes 21 chapters,an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] critics' review continued to verso of same page, author SIGNED+doodled title page,b/w line thumbnail illustrated dedication with blank verso,contents list/table with b/w thumbnail illustration to reverse of its last page,profuse b/w line illustrations as either chapter headpieces and or page margins or within the text,throughoutthe book - all by David Wyatt,and to the rear,a blank with b/w line self-portraits illustration of the author and illustrator recording a new species of ogleweed to its reverse and facing a potted biog of each - that also with a blank reverse,and as last page, acknowledgements with a b/w illustrated advert for the following book in the dsaga- 'STARCROSS' to its reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 16-year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral p/back/child’s book.It is only the minimal exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness and particularly as an uncommom author SIGNED p/back 1st edn. From the author of the international blockbuster Mortal Engines,adapted by visionary Peter Jackson,'Larklight' is an utterly unique and page-turningly brilliant Victorian space adventure. Art Mumby is just a normal boy living in space, but all that changes when an ancient race of gigantic white spiders called the First Ones arrive to seize his family home,Larklight. Forced to flee,Art and his annoying sister Myrtle are chased across the galaxy,from the fiery rivers of Mars to the distant rings of Saturn.But the First Ones have trouble on their hands.They don't bank on Art falling in with Jack Havock and a motley crew of notorious space pirates . Utterly unique and devilishly witty,'Larklight' is a page-turningly brilliant (Victorian) space adventure,and a truly original modern classic, told through the eyes of plucky Arthur Mumby. David Wyatt,(b. 28th November,1968) in Northampton,was adopted and raised in West Sussex.Aged 16,he attended art college in Reading,and obtained his first work doing the occasional page for British comic 2000 AD. An English illustrator living in Devon.He has illustrated tales by many well-known authors as Dianne Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and J.R.R. Tolkein. 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,12mo p/back,author SIGNED,1st edn.
Author SIGNED+dedicated+doodled.

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