The PHANTOM of MANHATTAN.

UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour illustration to front panel of dw/dj with glossy black embossed and embossed gilt lettering and other flat white lettering to same,similarly lettered spine/backstrip, rear panel with matt black background and a white+grey lettered Andrew Lloyd-Webber quote respectively; all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,or creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – near pristine,possibly unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate/clean plain black endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,5-203pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a Preface,16 chapters and an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title with author's other published works listed to its reverse,title page and to the rear,4pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
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It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry,Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at the Paris Opera House,took her small daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. And there,in a cage,she saw a filthy manacled creature whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face.It was Antoinette Giry who saved him,freed him,cured his wounds and finally let him find a dwelling place in the labyrinthine depths of the Opera House.The creature - Erik - whose hideous face hid a brilliant brain of near-genius,was to become the Phantom of the Opera - magician, artists,musician,and lover. When he tried to lure the object of his adoration to his underground domain - it was to end in tragedy.It was Madame Giry who saved him once more,set him on a ship to the New World - and there Erik Muhlheim began a new and secret life,a life that began in misery and poverty but in which his incredible skills finally carved out an unexpected kingdom of power.And there it was he learned again of Christine,whose life had changed dramatically since that night in the Paris Opera House.Inevitably, their paths must cross again in the old sequence of tragedy and triumph.
The Phantom,one of the most mysterious and romantic figures ever created,soars again in a world of his own making.Frederick Forsyth's magnificent and evocative story adds a new dimension to the legend of the Phantom.

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