The Wine of Angels Tapa dura - 1998

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Macmillan, 1998. 1st imp. jacket has 2 small nicks at top front corner and 1cm area at bottom front corner missing.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

UK: Macmillan, 1998. Signed first printing of the first novel to feature the Rev. Merrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist and psychic detective, signed by author to title page; an extremely difficult book to track down in first printing and at an affordable price; this copy is rather a poor one, and is offered as a reading copy of an important crime classic, distinguished only by the author's signature. Black cloth is worn and stained, spine rubbed and marked, and leans aslant at the base, edges dusty with shelf-wear stains, a name to the front free endpaper has been whited-out with correction fluid, small stain to half-title, text generally clean and sound (two page corners turned over, a few pages nicked to the fore-edge - probably caused in production); dust-wrapper is not price-clipped, but is creased to the edges and flaps, rubbed/chipped to the spine ends and corners with one or two small tears. The novel has been re-published by Atlantic, and this original edition will grow increasingly scarce.… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: MacMillan, 1998 unclipped DW has light handling, with light rubbing to the very edges, very small hole rubbed at head of upper joint, crease along spine but this is not a white crease, just a visible fold, very small split at foot of front panel, the book spine is not perfectly square, just shows slight signs of careful reading use, 534pp, complete number line 135798642 present, the first book to feature Merrily Watkins. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

London: MacMillan. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0333644859 . Black cloth-covered boards with bright silver-gilt titling and publisher's logo to the spine. VERY Slight 'turning' to the head/tail of the spine, due to storage only, but NO damage, just a very slight 'push' each end. In the original publisher's fine pictorial dust-jacket. The dust-jacket is NOT price clipped. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover and looks near As New. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Nice clean page fore-edges. Internally plain endpapers and No inscriptions or marks, apart from the AUTHOR'S SIGNATURE, flat-signed in black biro onto the Title page under his name. The Author's First Book in the 'Merrily Watkins' series. "The new vicar in the village of Ledwardine does not need a haunted vicarage, or controversy over the first Ledwardine… Leer más

London: Macmillan, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. The Book is very good, square and tight. It is unmarked, with clean pages free of inscriptions or marks and has been signed by the author directly on to the title page. There is a bump to the bottom corner of the front board adjacent to the spine and some curl to the top and bottom of the spine. There is a pressure witness mark running across the front board. The pages show the normal yellowing due to ageing. The Dust Jacket is very good, unfaded, unclipped (£16.99). There is some wear to the top corner of the jacket where it folds around the front board resulting in a small hole in the jacket and corresponding wear to the corner of the board which has gone into a small hole. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.

Macmillan, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.