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PRATCHETT**, TERRY: : MORT - A Discworld Big Comic

LONDON,VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD./CASSELL GROUP,November,1994.

ISBN 0575056991.

UK,slim Qrto softback/wraps,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published,UK,1987 as 4th Discworld novel and the first book of the Death series,Death having only ever appeared as a side character in the previous novels.This listed example with Stated First Gollancz Paperback edition.Adapted,rewritten and abridged by Pratchett from the original 1987 edn and published thus,as UK,HB,1st edn,Victor Gollancz Ltd.,September,1994.This example/listing is the UK,first graphic p/back,1st edn thus.] Near MINT.Wrapped+protected from day of issue/ purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, sharp-cornered,colour pictorial illustrated card covers with capitalised red+white author name, yellow+black lettered title,red+yellow lettered illustrator name - all to front cover; spine/ backstrip with white,yellow,black and red lettering and with NO reading creases to same, rear cover with yellow+white lettered story precis and red lettered potted biography of Pratchett and Higgins respectively.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Very minimal,minor and superficial scoring to either cover - no other faults noted.Top+fore-edges bright,clean without blemish; contents pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,NO reading creases to spine/backstrip - unread,other than my own collation.UK,slim Qrto s/back/wraps,1st edn,1- 93pp [paginated] includes profuse colour illustrations in a graphic novel style; plus [unpaginated] colour illustrated title page and to the rear,as verso of last page,a full-page b/w illustration of Death riding his white horse Binky. Uncommon in as excellent a grade as this. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature,i.e an ephemeral softback,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the few,minimal and minor exterior faults described that prevent the highest grading.Despite that,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Death wanted some personal time.He hired an apprentice. Unfortunately he chose Mort. Being Death's apprentice is a good job.Board and lodging,free use of company horse,and you don't even need time off for your grandmother's funeral.Looking like a skeleton is not compulsory,either. And you meet lots of interesting people. Although,of course,not for very long.All in all,it's a job for life. Well,nearly.It would have been if Mort had remembered that he wasn't supposed to rescue princesses.After that it all began to go dead wrong... The best-selling 'Discworld' books have always been said to have a particularly graphic quality even before they had pictures,and now Pratchett is pleased to present 'MORT' as 'A Big Comic', specially rewritten by Pratchett and illustrated in the spirit of 'Discworld',by Graham Higgins. Read it and reap. The plot is the same as' Mort',however some sections have been abridged and the dialogue cut to create a shorter story for this new format. Graham Higgins began drawing comics for Birmingham's Art Lab Prerss in 1976.His illustrations have appeared in Radio Times, Q magazine, and Punch (which ran the film noir detective strip 'Luke Carew',a character who first appeared in Knockabout Comics).He has also worked for DC Comics and 2000 AD on such titles as Animal Man and Doom Patrol. 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. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** 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.

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UK,slim Qrto softback/wraps,1st edn thus.
Not SIGNED.

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