HARDBACK, ?AUTHOR SIGNED LIMITED EDITION,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2010 * Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine, none to face. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or marks to cover. FINE* Jacket condition: B/w illustrated dust wrapper showing a skeleton on a beach, White titles to spine & face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £12.99. Absolutely minimal, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (black and white star-scape). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal age marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 243 pp. text. xxii pp., Author?s note, The reality of the story, The Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935-6, & blank pages at rear.* Description: January 1937, Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he?s offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Five men & eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay on desolate Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. Soon he will reach the point of no return ? when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not un-inhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark.* A FINE ?Author Signed,? text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minimal age & wear now in an un-attached clear protective wrapper.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9448
Title: Dark Matter, (Copy 2).
Author: Paver, Michelle
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/F/F
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp. FNL.
ISBN 10: 1409123782
ISBN 13: 9781409123781
Publisher: Orion
Place of Publication: London UK. 256
Date Published: 2010-10-21

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