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KING**, STEPHEN and STRAUB**, PETER: : black house. ** [Reversed alternative - White background & black lettering.]

LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2001.

ISBN 0007100426.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around white background with capitalised,glossy,embossed co-author's names [with KING's surname with white silhouette of a crow in flight across and between the N and G letters of his name],other black-lettered title in the space between their names.Spine/backstrip with capitalised,glossy,embossed black-lettered surnames,glossy,embossed other black-lettered title and publisher's matt black-lettered name and matt black illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with a glossy,grey silhouette of a crow in flight with the capitalised,matt,black-lettered prose extract of story transposed over it.Negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks,tears or splits present present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean with out foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,unblemished,sharp-cornered - with exception to front,top tip - minisculely bumped; black paper-covered boards with bird in flight silhouettte blocked to upper board and bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+black striped headband and immaculate plain maroon endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-624pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4 comprising 28 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with King's titles to it's verso,a Straub's titles page, black crow illustrated title page,a dedication,an epigram [The Jayhawks],a Right Here and Now. . . separator page,individual Pts separator pages,a thumbnail crow illustrated Once Upon A Time in the Territories page,4pp related story and an Epilogue,and 4pp blanks to rear. French Landing,Wisconsin - home of Kingsland Ale,Goltz's farm implements,Maxton's old folks' home and Radio KDCU,the voice of the Coulee Country.A comfortable,solid middle-American town inhabited by comfortable,solid,middle-Americans; and a serial killer.Ten-year-old Irma Freneau's mutilated body lies in the rotting ruins of Ed's Eats & Dawgs in the woods close to the Black House.No one has discovered her yet; no one,that is,except for a host of flies and a wild dog.But her severed foot,complete with size 5 New Balance sneaker and an obscene note,is about to make its way home to French Landing,packed into a shoebox. Slippage is occurring in the Coulee Country. Three children have been lost to the world.Three children: slaughtered by a fiend with a taste for child's flesh.Linking the murders with those carried out by a previous century's serial killer,the local newspaper has dubbed the perpetrator 'The Fisherman',and if local police chief Dale Gilbertson doesn't catch the Fisherman soon,he'll lose his job,and another French Landing mother will lose her child. If only Jack 'Hollywood' Sayer - the ex-detective from LA who cracked their last case for them - would help, Dale might save his neck.But,plagued by visions of another world, Jack has retired to this pretty rural retreat precisely to avoid such horrors.And having recognized the touch of madness on this case,he has no wish to revisit the Territories whence such madness issues. Soon,he'll have no choice: for the Fisherman is about to select his fourth victim.Tyler Marshall,left behind one afternoon by his bullying friends,pedals past Maxton Elder Care and is accosted by a crow.'Gorg!' it caws, and 'Ty!' What ten-year-old could resist a bird that speaks his name? Not Ty,that's for sure.And as he follows the crow towards the old folks' home,he is grabbed by the neck and dragged into a hedge.The Fisherman has made another catch. . . Want more Stephen KING titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS, MODERN FIRSTS2 and SIGNED catalogues. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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: US 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,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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