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ADAMS**, JANE: : The Greenway.** [Author's debut novel.]

LONDON.MACMILLAN,1995.

ISBN 0333644247.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[A pre-publication advanced copy; it is a 1st edn identical to the regular trade edn except without the price on inside flap.Reputed to have a smaller print run than her debut novel.So scarce thus.Complete number line 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - see above in parenthesis.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with bright,crisp,embossed gilt title,pale blue author's name and white lettered Minette Walters quote/review to front,similar coloured lettered spine/ backstrip; with some inevitable shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – but no nicks,tears or splits present - most of light creasing to top+bottom edges.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish or toning; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-203pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,22 chapters; plus [unpaginated] a synopsis,and half-title+ title pages. Visually the exterior appearance is acceptable for a book of it's age and scarcity and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Author's highly acclaimed debut novel - Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award for Best First Crime Novel and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Cassie Maltham still has nightmares of the day in August 1975 when her cousin Suzie vanished in the Greenway.Haunted also is John Tynan, a retired detective once in charge of Suzie's case.But when another girl goes missing,both must confront their personal demons and try to solve the mystery. Cassie Maltham was ten that August afternoon in 1975 when her cousin Suzie vanished - almost before Cassie's eyes - never to be seen again.Now,twenty years later,Cassie has returned to the quiet English seashore village where Suzie was last seen,to confront the disaster that changed Cassie's life forever.Little has altered.The Greenway - the ancient sheltered pathway in whose leafy secret depths Suzie had disappeared - is still there.And soon another young girl is swallowed in its shadow.Has Cassie's return provoked this second sinister tragedy? One thing is certain: Evil, inexorable and insatiable,has awakened from its long slumber and is once more on the move. . . . 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. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise.** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA 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,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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