SABAT 1 : THE GRAVEYARD VULTURES.

UK,12mo paperback Original,1st edn.[A New English Library Original Publication,and the First NEL paperback edn.Paperback/softback Original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back Originals are published prior to any other format.] VG+.No owner inscription - per se - but partial residue of top section of previous owner's bookplate(?) internally to top edge of front cover,and no price removal to rear cover.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, colour pictorial artwork to black background, illustrated front with b/w+green and gilt lettering, green+white lettering to spine/backstrip,and yellow+ green lettered story preamble to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/backstrip with a single reading crease - and some inevitable but minimal,minor superficial and very faint scoring/indents to either cover.Top+fore-edges inevitably aged/toned but without foxing/spotting; contents unusually bright and clean,tight,solid and sound with minimal page-edge toning - faint top corner dog-ear crease to pp131/2 (to last page Chapter 10 and the first page Chapter 11) - the only one,none to any other pages' corner tips.UK,slim 12mo paperback Original, 1st edn,5-160pp [paginated] includes a prologue and 13 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
First novel of 4,in the SABAT series,Mark Sabat,ex-priest,SAS-trained killer,exorcist,is a man with a dreadful mission. Driven and haunted,he has to seek out and destroy his mortal enemy.An enemy who is his own brother. Sabat was trapped,helplessly trapped,in his own paralysed body.His mind,conscious but impotent,raged and struggled against the inert flesh.He could sense,feel, the dark encrusted blood that masked his face.Sticky and rancid,more blood had soaked into his clothing, saturated through to the skin.Beside him the girl was naked,her pale body hideously marked by the knife that had stabbed and sliced through her flesh.Above them loomed the desecrated,altar,black candled,the crucifix reversed.But now the waiting was almost over.The ceremony was about to begin.
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