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WALTERS**, MINETTE: : THE BREAKER

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1998.

ISBN 0333747127.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn but a residual imprint of erased 24/10 at top, right-hand corner of front free endpaper and a price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, seascape colour photograph to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,glossy,embossed gilt lettered author name and lower case embossed white lettered title,black background to spine/ backstrip with a thumbnail colour photograph detail repeated from front panel and repeated similar lettering of front panel and publisher's colophon to foot of same,rear panel with a horizontal half-cover of author's b/w portrait photograph and a single critic's white lettered review.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges bright,fore-edges minimally and lightly agedt/toned - but both without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered - lower,front corner tip with miniscule crease excepted,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a pale blue+white striped headband,and clean,plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-356pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,27 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication with blank verso,acknowledgements with an Eastern aspect annotated/keyed b/w seascape photograph to its reverse and faced with a Western aspect annotated/keyed b/w seascape photograph with a b/w nautical navigation map to its reverse and 2pp of same date but differing timelines prose paragraphs. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them, it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness and brightness. Twelve hours after a woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England,her traumatized there-year-old daughter is disvoered twenty miles away walking the streets of poole,alone and apparently abandoned . . . But why was Kate killed and her daughter,a witness,allowed to live? And why weren't they together? More curiously,why had Kate willingly boarded a boat when she had a terror of drowning at sea? Police suspicion centres on a young actor,a loner with an obession for pornography,who lies about his relationship with the woman,and whose sailing boat,Crazy Daze,is moored just yards from where the toddler is found . . . As the investigation proceeds attention shifts inexorably towards the murdered woman's husband. Was he really in Liverpool the night she died? Is he sure that Kate was the 'respectaable woman' he claims? And why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick her up . . .? 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,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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