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GREGORY**, PHILIPPA: : TIDELANDS. [Fairmile series - Volume 1.] [Waterstones exclusive edition.]

LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK Ltd.,20th August,2019.

ISBN 9781471172724.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,Waterstones exclusive edn,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Waterstones exclusive edition with repeated dw/dj illustration printed to cloth boards.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around,matt, monochrome illustrated artwork by Matt Johnson, illustrated dw/dj with capitalised,glossy, embossed red-lettered title,black-lettered strap -line and capitalised,bright,crisp,blocked gilt-lettered author's name and capitalised red-lettered credit THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR to lower edge; plus publisher's advertising adhesive,black background with white-lettered text 'Waterstones exclusive edition' roundel - all to front panel of dw/dj; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author name as the front's and publisher's capitalised,white lettered+illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of artwork illustration and critics' reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned are bright crisp,clean without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, unblemished,sharp-cornered,original repeated dw/dj illustration printed to cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip,a red+black striped headband with sewn-in silk maroon bookmark ribbon and immaculate repeated brown+white regional map (part of Selsey Peninsula) illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-438pp [paginated] includes story which spans Midsummer's Eve,June1648 to February,1649 without chapter numeration; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and to the rear,4pp author's explanation of/about her writings with her facsimile signature at its end,addressed to the reader - these last 4pp are as blanks in the UK trade edition.                This Waterstones exclusive edition differs from the UK trade,having illustrated printed cloth boards,a headbanbd with bookmark ribbon,and different coloured endpaper illustration and the extra author content at the rear,replacing the blanks of the trade edn.   Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its 5 year-old age.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults.                                First novel in a new historical series from this author. England 1648.A dangerous time for a woman to be different. . .                                   Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.  Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. 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 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,Waterstones exclusive edition,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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