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 compression to spine tips; the wrapper similarly near-fine, just a touch scuffed at edges with some small nicks to ends of folds and head of spine; with oval ‘Waterstones Exclusive’ sticker to the upper panel.
First UK edition, this copy boldly signed by the author in black felt pen to the title page.
Printed in Spain the previous year and here appearing in a translation by Lucia Graves (the daughter of Robert Graves), The Angel’s Game is 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 novels, the series seamlessly blend mystery, romance and gothic horror on the streets of Barcelona.
A lovely copy.
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 compression to spine tips; the wrapper similarly near-fine, just a touch scuffed at edges with some small nicks to ends of folds and head of spine; with oval ‘Waterstones Exclusive’ sticker to the upper panel.
First UK edition, this copy boldly signed by the author in black felt pen to the title page.
Printed in Spain the previous year and here appearing in a translation by Lucia Graves (the daughter of Robert Graves), The Angel’s Game is 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 novels, the series seamlessly blend mystery, romance and gothic horror on the streets of Barcelona.
A lovely copy.
