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Buy this book on-line HITCHMAN, BEATRICE: : PETITE MORT OR, A LITTLE DEATH. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.SERPENT'S TAIL/PROFILE BOOKS LTD.,2013. ISBN 9781846689062.
UK,8vo small 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt dark grey background with superimposed b/w photographic illustrated front panel of red bordered,outlined lettered title and white lettering also - red+white lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Internally,to foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj,a small grease(?) stain.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - except rear lower corner,which appears to have a minor production fault(?) of wrinkled cloth - publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a yellow headband and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,1-329pp [paginated] includes story written in form of a journal covering period 1909 through to April 1914; plus [unpaginated] note on author,author SIGNED title page,and author's Thanks.
Author's debut novel and winner of the Greene & Heaton Prize for it.
Mesdames et Messieurs,presenting Petit Mort,or A Little Death . . . A silent film,destroyed in a fire in 1914 at the Pathe studio,before it was seen even by its director.
Lights . . .
A lowly seamstress,who believes her talent - and the sevret she keeps - will get her a dressing room of her own.
Camera . . .
A famous - and dashing - creator of spectacular cinematic illusions,husband to a beautiful, volatile actress,the most adored icon of the Paisian studios.
Action . . .
All fit together,like scenes in a movie. And,as you will see,this plot has a twist we beg you not to disclose . . .
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