Buy this book on-line MOORCOCK**, MICHAEL: : THE CITY IN THE AUTUMN STARSLONDON.GRAFTON BOOKS,1986. ISBN 0246128437.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,
crisp,clean,wrap-around,colour pictorial artwork by Geoff Taylor,illustrated dw/dj,
with yellow+orange,white letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+ foot of spine/
backstrip of both the bds and dw/dj,
minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing,spine/backstrip minimally sunned/
faded.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,
generally sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-344pp [paginated] includes a preface,20 chapters
+epilogue,plus [unpaginated] half-title+
title pages,and a dedication page.
Michael Moorcock,Britain's greatest living writer of adult fantasy,has created
in this astounding story of flight,
conflict and transcendental passion spanning the dimensions of the multiverse one of his most powerful and moving novels
to date (then 1986).
The Ritter Manfred von Bek flees from the
excesses of the French Revolution pursued by the vengeful Montsorbier.His destination is the neutral,prosperous Germanic city-state of Mirenburg.En route,
he is captivated by the mysterious,
elusive Libussa,Duchess of Crete,and he also falls in with the Scots aviationist St Odhran,student of the Montgolfier brothers,whose intent it is to swindle the
credulous merchants of Mirenburg out of a large sum by means of a highly inventive scheme involving his massive hot-air balloon.
But strange,occult and terrifying currents swirl darkly beneath the superficially placid bourgeois surface of Mirenburg life and Satanic cults flourish.
Soon von Bek and St Odhran find themselves drawn into this fiendish web. A superbly compelling self-contained novel
in its own right,'The City in the Autumn Stars' is a continuation of the story of the von Bek family,its association with Lucifer,Prince of Darkness,and the Cure for the World's Pain that Michael Moorcock
began in 'The Warhound and the World's Pain'.It will raise Michael Moorcock's already towering reputation to new heights
of excellence.
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