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ECO**, UMBERTO: : THE PRAGUE CEMETERY. [Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.]

LONDON.HARVILL SECKER,2011.

ISBN 9781846554919.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,orange dw/dj with black illustrations and lettering to front,rear and spine/backstrip illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - tiniest of one snick at head of spine.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain, ribbed,black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt decoration,letters and publisher's device to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-439pp [paginated] includes 27 chapters some,if not most,with 19thC b/w contemporaneous illustration,a section of Useless Learned Explanations,an illustrations list/table - excluding most chapter separator b/w illustrations; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,an epigram,and contents list/table. 'The Prague Cemetery.' a novel - an inspired twisting of history and fiction. Nineteenth-century Europe,from Turin to Prague to Paris,abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious.Conspiracies rule history.Jesuits plot against Freemasons,Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines.French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night.Every nation has its own secret service,perpetrating forgeries,plots,and massacres.From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to the notorious forgery 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.',Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if,behind all of these conspiracies both real and imagined,lay just one man? What if that evil genius created the most infamous document of all? Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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