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The Damnation Game
by BARKER, Clive
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First trade edition. Octavo. Photograph on back of jacket by Geoff Shields. Original black cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Color pictorial dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 374 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Boldly signed by Barker in black ink on the title page.
Synopsis
Born in Liverpool in 1952, Clive Barker has written and produced a number of Grand Guignol plays, including The History of the Devil and Frankenstein in Love . His volumes of short fiction, Books of Blood , earned him immediate praise from horror fans and literary critics alike. He won both the British and World Fantasy Awards, and was nominated for the coveted Booker Prize, Britain’s highest literary award. His bestselling novels include The Damnation Game, Imajica, The Thief of Always, The Great and Secret Show, and Everville . He also created the now-classic Hellraiser films, as well as Nightbreed , and Lord of Illusions .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 228993
- Title
- The Damnation Game
- Author
- BARKER, Clive
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Palm Springs, California
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2699 North Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262By appointment only.
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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