THE PARADISE WAR: Song of Albion - Book One.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line.] NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Rodney Matthews,dw/djs' illustrated front panel and lightly sunned/faded spine/backstrip,with red+white letters to both - red letters to spine lighty faded,rear panel with critics' black lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges ubiquitously toned but without foxing/spotting,fore-edges brighter and also without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,but some accidental,and the tiniest of uniform corner tip creasing minisculely affecting pp379/86 inclusive,text body otherwise near pristine,would still appear unread ,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettering and publisher's colphon to spine/backstrip and immaculate/ clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-416pp [paginated] includes 39 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table.and an epigram. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading. When an aurochs, a huge prehistoric ox long thought to be extinct, falls dead in a farmer's field in Scotland, Simon and Lewis, two graduate students, decide to investigate. Wolves prowling the streets of Oxford.A Green Man haunting ther Highlands. . . .Lewis Gillies is face to face with an ancient mystery. Drawn from the ivory towers of Oxford to the misty moors and glens of Scotland,Lewis expects little more than a pleasant weekend away.But the road north leads to a mystical crossroads,and he finds himself in a place wjere two worlds meet,in the time-between-times. The ancient Celts admitted no separartion bewteen this world and the Otherworld: the two were delicately interwoven,each dependent upon the other.in 'The Paradise War; this balance is distrurbed - and a breach has opened between the two worlds,and cosmic catastrophe threatens. 'The Paradise War' is the first book in Lawhead's epic series,'Song of Albion.' As in 'The Pendragon Cycle', Lawhead mines therich vein of Celtic mythology,giving us a fresh look at what is,and what may be. 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 AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **