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Buy this book on-line BARKER**, CLIVE: : IMAJICA. [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS,1991. ISBN 0002235595.
UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,expansive black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork with gilt decoration,by David O'Connor,illustrated dw/dj with gilt +white lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.A couple of very,very tiny snicks to head of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj with some minimal creasing and the rear,lower corner of dw/dj has some tiny and miniscule loss - due to wear+rubbing of same,possibly.Spine/backstrip of dw/dj inevitably,but faintly sunned/faded,but not to the degree usually encountered.Top edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal,fore-edges less so,and both generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Unusual production fault(?) in that on the top of pp621,the original printed type/font for part of the first two sentences,is pasted on a separate paper slither/slip/flap and matches exactly it's original position of the missing type beneath.It's definitely not another identical page from another example being torn out and then pasted in situ - as the page beneath is complete and blank where the type would have been - very odd and strange! Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - apart from front, lower corner which has the smallest of dents,
publisher's original plain black cloth boards
with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK, thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,1-854pp [paginated] includes 62 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,author SIGNED title page,title separator page and 4pp blanks at the rear.Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or sounds - still an acceptable copy - particularly as author SIGNED.
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Amid a seamless tapestry of erotic passion, thwarted ambition and mythic horror,'Imajica' picks out the brightly-coloured threads of three memorable characters: John Furie Zacharias,known as Gentle,a master forger whose own life is a series of lies; Judith Odell,a beautiful woman desired by three powerful men but belonging to none of them; and Pie'oh'pah,a mysterious assassin who deals in love as well as death. United in a desperate search for the heart of a universal mystery,all three discover the truth that lies in a place as mysterious as the face of God,and as secret as the human soul.They discover Imajica.
The Imajica: five dominions,four reconciled,and one,the Earth,cut off from them,her inhabitants living in ignorance on the edge of a sea of possibilities,an ocean of mystery and magic.Only a few know of the Imajica,and many of them are frightened.For a time is coming,a time of great risk,a time of great promise - a shining mystical moment in which earth can be reunited with the other four Dominions.
A time of Reconciliation.
As Judith,Gentle and Pie race to capture that moment,other forces are gathering to keep the Earth forever bound in the darkness that surrounds her.Their quest will carry them on an epic journey through all five Dominions to the very border of the greatest mystery of all: the First Dominion,on the other side of which lies the Holy City of the Unbeheld,where their highest hopes,or their deepest fears,will be realized.
'Imajica' is many things: an epic tour de
force that soars in celebration of the power of magic and the imagination; a brilliant compilation of visionary splendours,heart-stopping terrors and fundamental myths that reinvent mythology itself; a novel of vast panoramas and intimate,obsessive passions, embracing ghosts and reflections as well as the human and divine.Above all,'Imajica' - a book of revelations - is Clive Barker's outstanding achievement to date (then 1991).
Spellspinner,master fabulist,he takes us on a voyage to worlds beyond our knowledge,but within our grasp.Long after you have turned the final page,you will be yearning for Imajica's wonders, believing they are just a breath away.
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