Bettison edward illustrations (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print (number line on copyright page 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Hardback copy in purple cloth boards with purple gilt bird illustration to front boards. Unclipped dustjacket in new removabe protective clear sleeve. 342pp. B/w endpapers, b/w illustrations throughout. Signed by author in black ink to official Macmillan bookplate pasted to half title page. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small indentation to bottom edge of front boards, some rubbing to dustjacket edges. (50/5). Bettison, Edward (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, WITH SLIPCASE, NO 169 OF 1300. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN ON 'SIGNED LIMITED EDITION' PAGE. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, no discernible wear to illustrated slipcase, not price clipped (£12.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unopened, unread. 368pp, illustrated endpapers. 'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the email. So Jude did. He bought it in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart shaped box, because he wanted it, because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection, the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest to God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphernalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock. But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark, the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life. Scarce signed with slipcase, the author's debut novel. Slipcase, jacket and illustrations by Edward Bettison (illustratore). Signed by Author(s).…