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The Necropolis Railway (UK Signed Copy)
by Andrew Martin
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571209610
- ISBN 13
- 9780571209613
- Seller
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Hull, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine/Fine. The Book is fine, square and tight. It is unmarked, with clean pages free of marks or inscriptions and has been signed by the author directly on to the title page. The pages show the normal yellowing due to ageing. The Dust Jacket is fine, unfaded, unclipped (£10.99) and is free of rips, tears or marks. Like all copies of this book that we have seen, it is tightly bound and stiff to open. The spine on this copy is square and is free of creasing. First Edition, First Printing - Signed by the author. All our books are covered with a clear, removable, chemically inert, protective wrapper before being securely bubble wrapped and dispatched in strong corrugated cardboard boxes.
Synopsis
Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can’t believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally—a railway line that takes coffins from London morgues to the gigantic new cemeteries being dug in the city’s outskirts. He also learns that his predecessor had disappeared and that his coworkers seem to have formed an instant loathing for him. Forced to live by his wits and to arrive at his own deductions—assisted by his landlady, for whom he falls— he tries to figure out what is going on before he is issued a one-way ticket on the Necropolis Railway.
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- Bookseller
- Just Fiction Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14616
- Title
- The Necropolis Railway (UK Signed Copy)
- Author
- Andrew Martin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571209610
- ISBN 13
- 9780571209613
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime & Thrillers;
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About the Seller
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About Just Fiction Books
Established in 2007 by two book collectors based in East Yorkshire. We specialise in modern fiction, especially signed first edition hardback copies of Crime fiction and Historical fiction titles.
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