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GRAY, PHILIP: : TWO STORM WOOD

LONDON.HARVILL SECKER/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE,2021.

ISBN 9781787302617.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around red background with superimposed b/w photograph and capitalised, glossy,embossed,black-lettered title, capitalised,glossy,white-lettered author name and capitalised,glossy,embossed white-lettered strap line; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as front's, and publisher's white-lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with white-lettered prose extract and 3 critic's b/w lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp, clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked bronze gilt lettering,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-343pp [paginated] includes a first chapter,7 sections with 5,5,8,9,8,7 and 4 chapters respectively and Acknowledgements at the rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,an epigram [D.H. Lawrence,A Winter's Tale],individual section separator pages,2pp blanks between last page of last chapter and the Acknowledgements page.           Author's debut novel.                            Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness and brightness.                      1919. THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent.Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Amy Vanneck's fiance is one soldier lost amongst many, but she cannot accept that his body may never be found.Defying convention, hardship and impossible odds,she heads to France,determined to discover what became of the man she loved. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war,but still its prisoner.He cannot yet bring himself to go home,first he must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.  It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery.As the dark truth leaches out,both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath,one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end,but a beginning. For fans of Ben MacIntyre,and 'Munich' by Robert Harris and 'Child 44' by Tom Rob Smith.    A story of sacrifice, love and loyalty overcoming the psychological tortures of the World War I battlefields.           Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - 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 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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