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In the mountains of Switzerland the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds.
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Count Karlstein
Editore:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1982
ISBN 10: 0701126493
ISBN 13: 9780701126490
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Da: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condizione: VG-. Condizione sovraccoperta: F-. First Edition. VG-/F-. 8vo. original black boards gilt (ex-library with a few rsms, label etc. to outer leaves, mostly front endpapers, four tape marks to boards, lower section of FFE has been excised leaving scoring in following two leaves, else internally clean & unmarked) in dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned, marked); pp. [vi (last blank)], 166. A good copy of the author's uncommon first childrens novel in a well preserved dustwrapper. Codice articolo 014527
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Count Karlstein - SIGNED
Editore:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1982
ISBN 10: 0701126493
ISBN 13: 9780701126490
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Da: MintFirsts Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, Macclesfield, CHESH, Regno Unito
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Hardback. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 165, [1]. Publisher's navy blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket illustration by Gavin Rowe (priced £5.50 net to front flap). The first UK printing by Chatto & Windus, published in 1982, and not to be confused with the 1991 Doubleday re-issue. Signed by Author to title page. Ex-library, with a Shropshire County Library stamp to copyright page, evidence of label removal to front end-paper, spine tips and corners pushed-in, textblock edges dusty with some light foxing, else contents clean and bright, in a complete dustwrapper with some light creasing to edges. Pullman's uncommon first children's book and third novel overall. Set in the early nineteenth century, when an evil Count draws up a contract with a Demon involving human sacrifice in order to obtain untold riches. Borrowing elements from Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz, and Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel The Moonstone, the story was originally written to be performed as a school play at Bishop Kirk Middle School, Oxford, where the author taught secondary pupils. "Dashing, sparkling and wildly over-the-top fun." -Publishers Weekly. signed. Codice articolo 2RC 398
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