Buy this book on-line STRAUB**, PETER: : THE HELLFIRE CLUBLONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,1996. ISBN 0002254549.
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, glossy,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with author's capitalised,gilt-lettered name and a black elliptical panel with double-lined gilt borders with capitalised,gilt-lettered title within,to dw/dj front.Spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name and panelled title as the front's, and publisher's black-lettered name and black illustrated colophon respectively,to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with 6 critics' [includes Stephen King] black-lettered reviews. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with fading colouring(?),fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without any ageing/toning or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – pristine - with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xivpp+4-462pp [paginated] includes an undesignated preamble/prologue,102 chapters,and 11pp undesignated last chapter etc.; plus [unpaginated] half-title,publisher list of author's other titles,a title page,a dedication, an epigram [Louis Althusser,The Future Lasts Forever.]a Contents list/table,and to the rear, 2pp blanks.
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 25+ year-old age.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for it's brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of other age-acquired detracting faults usually encountered in a book of this age.
Family secrets and mysteries half-buried in the past, has an action storyline with a viscerally satisfying villain and a strong female protagonist.The premise is that the history of a famous fantasy novel not only concerns some eccentric authors,but collides with a wily killer on a rampage. The settings - in seedy motel rooms, New England houses, a bizarre private club and an over-the-hill literary retreat.
['Far and away the best book Peter Straub has done. . . moves like an express train.' STEPHEN KING.]
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