FORESTS OF THE NIGHT.

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A title from the Collins Crime Club imprint/series,and the author's debut novel.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be export copies,released before the trade issue in the first published country.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with green+white lettering to same,greenoverlaid panel on black background with b/w lettering and Crime Club logos at both head+foot of same,rear panel with white background and black letteredadvert for assorted other author's published titles; all with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing - to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean - unusually,no foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip with similar bright,crisp,blocked Crime Club logo to foot of same,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8-191pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title with story precis and a blank verso,title page,and an epigram (line from The Tiger,William Blake) also with blank verso. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally, the book is also in an exceptional condition/ state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
Martin Hobbs,13,was so disturbed by the break-up of his parents' marriage that he had been receiving therapy at a Cambridgeshire clinic,to thedismay of his attractive mother who resented being involved.She had already suggested that treatment was no longer necessary now that Martin was settled in a new school under the guidance of a wise acting headmaster,but she could not have foreseen that their association with the clinic would have such a dramatic end. One night,while she was working illicitly on its premises,her son ran out screaming that a tiger had killed her.What prowling beast had he seen? Was it real or the product of his disturbed imagination? Chief Inspector Baxter set himself to find out.
Experience has taught Baxter compassion,as well as thoroughness.He has need of the first quality as he is confronted by the results of the second in an investigation that takes him into the lives of everyone connected with Cheryl Hobbs,and deep into the forests of the night. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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