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The Taking (Signed 1st Printing)
by Dean Koontz
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 055380250X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553802504
- Seller
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LA QUINTA, California, United States
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About This Item
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. From a recent auction of modern firsts with the auction tag tipped into the book--a superb fine copy in a fine unclipped dustjacket. This copy is signed "Boo" by the author on the half title page and dated "3-9-05"-- and is in flawless condition. Protected in a new archival dustjacket cover.
Synopsis
The new thriller from Dean Koontz is a novel of stunning suspense and visceral terror as doomsday dawns.On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain. It has haunted their dreams through the night, and now they find an eerily luminous and silver downpour that drenches their small Californian mountain town.As hours pass they hear news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. An obscuring fog turns once familiar streets into a ghostly labyrinth. By evening, the town has lost all communication with the outside world. First TV and radio go dead, then the Internet and phone lines. The young couple gathers together with some neighbours, sensing a threat they cannot identify or even imagine.The night brings strange noises, and mysterious lights drift among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn but a moody grey-purple twilight prevails. Within the misty gloom the small band will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to the world – something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency.Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in its perspective, The Taking is a story of a strangely changed and changing world as apocalypse comes to Main Street.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic First Editions
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- cfe13977
- Title
- The Taking (Signed 1st Printing)
- Author
- Dean Koontz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 055380250X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553802504
- Publisher
- Bantam Dell Pub Group
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 464
- Keywords
- FICTION MYSTERY
Terms of Sale
Classic First Editions
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About the Seller
Classic First Editions
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LA QUINTA, California
About Classic First Editions
A large collection of modern first editions--most signed--as well as a large assortment of early Western fiction, Limited Edition Club, History and Biography.
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- PUB
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- Half Title
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- New
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