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The Long Earth
by Pratchett, Terry; Baxter, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0857520091
- ISBN 13
- 9780857520098
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2012. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; First edition first printing with full number line. Pictorial boards with black lettering to spine, dark red endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. DJ design by R Shailer with photographs courtesy of Getty Images. ; The Long Earth Series; Vol. 1; 352 pages; A novel of parrallel dimensions. 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 in the trees. Where has 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. And that is an understatement if ever there was one... .
Synopsis
TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad , is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents , was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. Born in 1957, STEPHEN BAXTER is one of the UK's most acclaimed writers of science fiction. Amongst his many books are the Time's Odyssey novels, written with Arthur C. Clarke, and Time Ships , a sequel to H G Wells' classic The Time Machin e . He lives in Northumberland.
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- Bookseller
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33309
- Title
- The Long Earth
- Author
- Pratchett, Terry; Baxter, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0857520091
- ISBN 13
- 9780857520098
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Science Fiction And Fantasy;
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