Kept: A Victorian Mystery SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
by Taylor, D.J
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0701178957
- ISBN 13
- 9780701178956
- Seller
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Isle of Man, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED, STAMPED with blackbird illustration, NUMBERED out of 100. This SPECIAL BLACKBIRD EDITION was commisioned by the top London Independant Bookseller, Goldsboro Books Ltd. THERE ARE ONLY 100 OF THESE WORLDWIDE. From the Publisher Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian plotting and a great train robbery. in a captivating Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get - and keep - what they want. Synopsis Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens... Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, "Kept" is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. In August, 1863 - Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, leaving a highly-strung young widow. Not far away lives Ireland's friend James Dixey, a celebrated naturalist who collects strange trophies, a stuffed bear, a pet mouse, and a wolf that he keeps caged in the grounds of his decaying house, lost in the fog on the edge of the fens. The poachers, Dewar and Dunbar, with their cargo of pilfered eggs; Esther the observant kitchen maid, pining to be re-united with her vanished admirer; the ancient lawyer Mr Crabbe made careless by snobbery; John Carstairs, in search of his cousin, the elusive widow; an enigmatic debt-collector, busily plotting an audacious robbery; various low-life henchmen; and Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard, patiently investigating the circumstances of the Mr Ireland's death and many other things besides - all are drawn into a net of intrigue with wide and sinister implications. Ranging from the lochsides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the Yukon wilds, "Kept" is a gorgeously intricate novel about the urge to possess, at once a gripping investigation of some of the secret chambers of the human heart and a dazzling re-invention of Victorian life and passions
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- Bookseller
- BritoBooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000277
- Title
- Kept: A Victorian Mystery SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
- Author
- Taylor, D.J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0701178957
- ISBN 13
- 9780701178956
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Product_type
- 2
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BritoBooks
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About the Seller
BritoBooks
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Isle of Man
About BritoBooks
Buying, selling, collecting books is my hobby. I tend to specialise in modern, signed 1st edition, both adult and childrens titles. But I also stock many rare & collectible books from all generations and all genres.
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