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BURT, GUY: : SOPHIE. [UNCORRECTED PROOF Copy.]

LONDON.BLACK SWAN BOOKS/an imprint of Transworld Publisher's Ltd.,1994.

ISBN 0552995320.

UK,12mo p/back,Uncorrected Proof,1st edn.[Often of limited availability the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors,proof-readers and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] Near MINT. No owner inscrptn,no printed published price and no reading creases to spine/backstrip - unread other than my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy,card covers with grey+white horizontal divisions with author's name and other white-lettered authorship credit for AFTER THE HOLE to top grey division and to the white division below, capitalised black/grey lettered title and capitalised strapline,a b/w portrait photographic illustration and capitalised,black/grey-lettered UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY within a black bordered rectagular panel at front' lower edge.A white spine/backstrip with publisher's capitalised,black-lettered name and b/w illustrated colophon to it' head and capitalised,black-lettered title and author name and NO reading creases,rear cover with grey+ white horizontal divisions with white-lettered synopsis to top grey division,and to white division beneath critics' black-lettered revews for author's debut novel AFTER THE HOLE,also with a narrow horizontal grey band with capitalised,white-lettered UNCORRECTED PROOF within the band and capitalised,black-lettered Not for Resale or Distibution disclaimer and published date JULY 1994 to lower edge. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,ters or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without blemish,ageing/toning or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread other than my own collation.UK,12mo p/back,Uncorrected Proof,1st edn,5-219pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters; plus [unpaginated] author's potted biography,a title page and to the rear,4pp blanks. Want other PROOF copies? Please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2, CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED, BIOGRAPHY, SIGNED, NAVAL/MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY catalogues for examples. Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 30 year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral paperback proof copy.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it’s brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of any other age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in a paperback of this age and nature. In a dark room of a dilapidated house, as a storm rages outside, Matthew lights a candle and places it in the center of the floor. Its light spreads across the wall and illuminates Sophie, tied up in a chair facing him. She is frightened, fearful of what he might do next. But for now, it seems, all Matthew wants to do is talk. Talk about the events of nearly twenty years ago, about their strange childhood, and about the summer when Sophie grew up and everything changed . . . forever. Young Mattie and Sophie lived in a world seemingly without constraints. Their cold mother barely paid attention to her children. Their father, a mere shadow in their lives, was never home. So Mattie and Sophie had the run of the gardens and the woods beyond. They played youthful games, but Sophie was extraordinarily intelligent, a fact she took great pains to hide from her teachers, so as not to stand out. Sophie was everything to Mattie, and he worshiped her. He wanted to know her secrets, the things that went on inside her brilliant mind. But Sophie was changing. And the summer before she went away to boarding school, the things she had worked so hard to conceal would come spilling out - and Mattie would have to live with the shocking consequences. Now he’s all grown up, too, and Matthew wants answers to the questions that still darken his mind - no matter what the cost . . . Guy Burt (born 14 July 1972) is an English author and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter who has worked on series such as The Borgias,and Wire in the Blood and is currently working on adapting the Alex Rider TV series. Burt wrote his debut novel,'After the Hole' (1993),a psychological story about a group of private school students trapped in an underground bunker, seemingly locked in by a deranged, sociopathic classmate.He won the Betty Trask Award in 1994 for this work, which was adapted into the film,'The Hole (20010, starring Thora Birch and Daniel Brocklebank. He has since published two more novels,'SOPHIE' (1994) and The Dandelion Clock (1999).  Please contact the seller,particularly ALL overseas buyers,for correct [insured,or uninsured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order, especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. 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UK,12mo p/back,Uncorrected Proof,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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