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The Long Earth
by Pratchett, Terry Baxter, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0857520091
- ISBN 13
- 9780857520098
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Doubleday.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated laminated boards showing planets in the sky. Slight bumps to lower corners, no rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine which has a slight lean. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing landscape with planets in the sky, maroon, brown and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £18.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Coloured end papers (maroon). Clean, crisp, and tight with only light reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top & fore-edges. GD++.* Illustrations: A single b/w line drawn diagram to front page.* Pages: 344 pp. text. viii pp. acknowledgements, notes on authors & advertisements at rear.* Description: 1916: The Western Front ~ Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves on the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin ~ Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and...a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter.* A NEAR VG ex-library copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults in a protected dust jacket.*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1994
- Title
- The Long Earth
- Author
- Pratchett, Terry Baxter, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0857520091
- ISBN 13
- 9780857520098
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London UK 352
- Date Published
- 2012-06-21
- Size
- 16 x 3.4 x 24.3 cm
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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