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WALL, ALAN: : BLESS THE THIEF. [Uncorrected Proof - Advance Reading Copy.]

LONDON.MARTIN SECKER & WARBURG,LTD.,1997.

ISBN 0436203987.

UK,small 8vo wraps,an Advance reading copy - also known and stated as an Uncorrected Proof, 1st edn.[Publication date 27 January 1997.Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors, proofreaders 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,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.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright, crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy monochrome photographic illustrated front cover with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,small 8vo wraps,Advance reading copy,1st edn,vpp-1-211pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, 29 chapters,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,and epigrams (2). Author's outstanding debut novel. Following the loss of his father in the Hindenburg disaster of 1937,Tom Lynch is brought up in Yorkshire,at the Robert Southwell School on the edge of Ilkley Moor.Tom's guardian, Patrick Grimshaw,inducts him into the mysterious Delaquay Society,an organisation based on the works of a nineteenth century book illustrator of considerable genius and perversity.At Oxford, Tom becomes increasingly involved with the Society,until a breach of its conventions of secrecy blows apart its hermetic and obsessively closed world,and he is caught up in the resulting chaos.As the manner of Tom's life begins to exact a heavy toll,so the Society takes its own terrible revenge,and Tom Lynch comes finally to understand who he really is and where he came from. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct 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: 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,small 8vo wraps, Advance reading copy,1st thus.
Not SIGNED.

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