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ATWOOD**, M[argaret] E[leanor]: : STONE MATTRESS - Nine Tales

LONDON.BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC,2014.

ISBN 9781408857168.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,lemon yellow background with part-glossy,part-matt, colour photographic illustrated designs to both dw/dj panels and spine/backstrip with glossy embossed red+black letters to front+spine; other black printed letters to front,and assorted authors' red+black lettered reviews to rear panel of dw/dj.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – virtually pristine - possibly unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked black lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-273pp [paginated] includes 9 stories; plus [unpaginated] half-title with first page of 2pp info of author's published titles to its verso, 2nd page of listed works with blank reverse, title page,a Contents list/table,title separator page,and to the rear a page each to Note on author and Type (font),each with blank versos. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband.An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing,while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatalite. In these nine tales,Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself,in her award-winning novel 'Alias Grace.' In 'Stone Mattress.',Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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