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The Crystal Skull (UK Signed Copy)
by Manda Scott
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0593055705
- ISBN 13
- 9780593055700
- Seller
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Hull, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bantam Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardback. Fine/Fine. The Book is fine, square and tight. It is unmarked, with clean pages free of inscriptions or marks and has been signed by the author directly on to the title page. There is slight curl to the top and bottom of the spine. The pages show the normal slight yellowing due to ageing and paper quality. The Dust Jacket is fine, unfaded, unclipped (£12.99) and is free of rips, tears or marks. The front face carries a round self adhesive promotional label stating 'ONLY £12.99'. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.
Synopsis
In a spellbinding blend of history, myth, and science, bestselling novelist Manda Scott unleashes a thriller that sweeps from the secrets of the Mayans to the court of a sixteenth-century queen to a shattering end-times prophecy. "It's a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for." Except it's not just a lump of rock. It's a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin; a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it.Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence are not reunited, the world will end on December 21, 2012. Cedric Owen, the skull's last Keeper, died so that it might keep its secret for the next four centuries. Now Stella Cody has found it, and someone has already tried to kill her. Like Owen, she's being hunted--but by whom?Desperate to unravel the mystery of the crystal skull, Stella must decode Cedric Owen's coded writings, sketches and ciphers no scholar has been able to unravel. What she discovers is astounding: a shocking secret prophecy...and the staggering puzzle of four terrifying creatures, thirteen precious stones, and what will happen if Cedric Owen's crystal skull falls into the wrong hands. But time is against Stella. She has only days--hours--left to uncover the only secret that may yet save the world.12.21.12The date is set. Time is running out.The end of the world starts now.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Just Fiction Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14681
- Title
- The Crystal Skull (UK Signed Copy)
- Author
- Manda Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0593055705
- ISBN 13
- 9780593055700
- Publisher
- Bantam Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime & Thrillers;
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About the Seller
Just Fiction Books
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About Just Fiction Books
Established in 2007 by two book collectors based in East Yorkshire. We specialise in modern fiction, especially signed first edition hardback copies of Crime fiction and Historical fiction titles.
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