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ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz
The Angel’s Game
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009
Large 8vo., navy-blue boards lettered and lined in metallic red to backstrip, with publisher’s device to foot; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£18.99 to front flap) designed by ‘GHOST’; decorative endpapers showing marble statues; pp. [viii], 3-453, [v]; with each ‘act’ featuring a black and white photograph page; the book near-fine, with light bumping to spine tips and mild toning to the edges of the text block; the wrapper similarly near-fine, just a touch scuffed at edges with evidence of a circular sticker to the front panel having now been removed.
First UK edition, printed in Spain the previous year and here appearing in a translation by Lucia Graves (the daughter of Robert Graves). One of the books in Zafon’s ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ series, which are designed to be read in any order. One of this bookseller’s favourite books, the novels seamlessly blend mystery, romance and gothic horror on the streets of Barcelona.
ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz
The Angel’s Game
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009
Large 8vo., navy-blue boards lettered and lined in metallic red to backstrip, with publisher’s device to foot; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£18.99 to front flap) designed by ‘GHOST’; decorative endpapers showing marble statues; pp. [viii], 3-453, [v]; with each ‘act’ featuring a black and white photograph page; the book near-fine, with light bumping to spine tips and mild toning to the edges of the text block; the wrapper similarly near-fine, just a touch scuffed at edges with evidence of a circular sticker to the front panel having now been removed.
First UK edition, printed in Spain the previous year and here appearing in a translation by Lucia Graves (the daughter of Robert Graves). One of the books in Zafon’s ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ series, which are designed to be read in any order. One of this bookseller’s favourite books, the novels seamlessly blend mystery, romance and gothic horror on the streets of Barcelona.