MORTAL ENGINES.**

UK,12mo p/back,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 9 8 6 5. So a 1st ed,5th imp.] FINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,neat,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price removal to card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour pictorial artwork by David Fankland,illustrated front+rear covers,with b/w and glossy silver letters to front,silver+white lettered spine/ backstrip which has NO reading creases to same,rear panel with black lettered story synopsis and a couple of newspaper critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creases to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Front lower corner with tiniest of corner tip curl and a bookseller's (Waterstone's) orange circular adhesive label with black letters 'Signed by the Author An Ideal Gift at Waterstone's ' to same, and also with a gold printed 'Gold Award Winner The Nestle Book Prize' medallion to lower edge of front cover.A small corner crease to rear,top corner with concomitant faint creasing back through the preceding 12pps' corners.Top+fore-edges with light age/toning and no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages/corners - unread, other than my own collation.UK,12mo p/back, SIGNED,1st edn,5th imp,3-293pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2 comprising 23 and 14 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a contents list/table,a dedication,individual Pts separator pages and author's acknowledgements to rear,as the last page.
Described hard but honestly and fairly not as detrimental as it reads or sounds. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral paperback edn,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the faults described that prevent a higher grading. London is on the move again.The city as been lying low, skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger,faster,hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground.The great town moves off after its quarry as events within the walls begin to take a sinister turn.A young assassin is stalking her own prey throught the city.Hester Shaw's plot is foiled by a young apprentice who has finally stumbled into a real adventure.Tom's blundering intervention leaves the pair stranded in the Out-Country,a sea of mud cored by the tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon.Staring back from the city in horror is Katherine,a sheltered Tier One girl who is about to grow up very fast. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - 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. **