Shadow Master Unknown - 1978

Hutchinson, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library. Hardback. Well-read copy with some spine wear but still useable. Colouring of pages due to age.

Hutchinson, 1978-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Original dust cover laminated onto front cover. Clean copy in good condition.

Hutchinson, London, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. In Elaine Feinstein's new novel, which is wider in scale and more fascinating in theme than any of her previous books, a group of English tourists on a Golden Wonder holiday in Istanbul find themselves involved in a re-enactment of a seventeenth century legend, and a chain of events with bizarre consequence for the whole world. The story ranges across present-day Europe, East and West, charting prejudice, brutality and longing for apocalyptic change. The mood of the tale moves from gentle irony to black farce; with time for the misadventures of Howard, middle-aged accountant and his wife, as well as magnificent monsters like Lilian the astrologer and Anastasia, Russian aristocrat and drug -smuggler extraordinary. At the centre of the legend, hidden (like the master of a seventeenth century shadow-puppet show) stands a figure of enormous and controversial authority whose own role we do not come to… Leer más

Hutchinson, 1978. 009134560X. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (small tear on upper cover next to spine - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. 238 (no inscriptions).

London: Hutchinson and Co, 1978. First edition hard cover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. From the collection of W.L. Webb, the Guardian's literary editor for many years. DJ is notably tanned, with light creasing to cover edges, corners and folds. Boards are very clean, pages tightly bound, and content is unmarked. CN. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used.

Hutchinson, 1978-01-01. 1St Edition. Hardcover. Good.

London: Hutchinson of London, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Binding very slightly cocked, near fine in a lightly toned very good dust jacket with modest rubbing. Inscribed by the author to Michael Curtis. A novel of English tourists on holiday in Istanbul who find themselves caught up in the reenactment of a 17th-century legend.