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The Magic Toyshop
by Carter, Angela
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. 1st edition, preceding the American. Her 2nd novel and much her rarest, a fiendish horror that's hardly ever for sale at all, and never for sale this nice (the scary jacket illustration was quickly replaced for Heinemann's 2nd printing). The book has a 3-line gift inscription otherwise it is fine. The 1st printing dustjacket has a single 1/2" edge tear otherwise it is near fine, and this jacket fades easily and soils even easier, but the whites on our jacket are so white that they call the cops on all the other jackets. The Magic Toyshop found some praise from reviewers but sold slowly and it took her a few more books to get a following of readers. Now, 30 years after her death, she remains the principal maker of women's lore. The universities know all about her, and their students hear lectures on her all the time but, so far, her 1st editions have not been eagerly hunted by collectors to the degree they will be, and The Magic Toyshop is the one to start with or it will be the one you never get.
Synopsis
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure gardens. And brooding Unlce Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 773
- Title
- The Magic Toyshop
- Author
- Carter, Angela
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- 64
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About the Seller
Biblioctopus
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Century City, California
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