THE LONG EARTH.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Completet number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt wrap-around,montage'd colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w and brown lettering to front,b/w lettered spine/backstrip, rear panel With white lettered prose extract; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges lightly toned but bright,clean and without blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – near pristine, unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - exception of front top corner with tiny knock,original, colour photographic detail of skyscape background from dw/dj design repeated to paper-covered boards with black+brown lettered spine/backstrip and clean sets of plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9344pp [paginated] includes 52 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a b/w diagram [plans for Willis Linsay's original 'Stepper',and to the rear authors' acknowledgements,notes on the authors,and 3pp list of books by Pratchett,and 2pp list of books by Baxter.
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The UK's bestselling fantasy writer and a giant of British SF combine forces to write an astonishing, mind-bending new series... 'The Long Earth'.
'The Long Earth' transports readers to the ends of the earth—and far beyond. All it takes is a single step. . .
1915: The Western Front: Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud,blood,and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter,where has Percy gone?
2015: Madison,Wisconsin.Police officer Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive—some say mad,others allege dangerous—scientist who seems to have vanished.Sifting through the wreckage,Jansson finds a curious gadget: a box containing some rudimentary wiring, a three-way switch, and . . . a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humankind views the world forever.
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