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MOSLEY**, WALTER: : RL's DREAM. [UK,Uncorrected Advance Proof copy.]

LONDON.SERPENT'S TAIL,1995.

ISBN 1852423757.

UK,8vo wraps,Uncorrected Advance Proof copy,of the UK Paperback Original,1st edn thus. [Publication date (UK) Paperback Original with Flaps,Serpent's Tail,October 1995. Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author,editors, proofreaders and some favoured reviewers.For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] VG++. No owner inscrptn.Light grubbing to a tiny dog-ear crease to bottom front corner, affecting about first 7pp.Some small dog-ear creases to 16pp (pp187-204).Top+fore-edges marginally marked - nothing heavy or excessive; contents bright,tight and very clean.Although as an unread copy,there are no vertical spine/backstrip creases; there is a slight production fault crease/wrinkling to top third of same - due in part to the technique of 'perfect' binding,where the signatures are glued to the wraps,as in most modern paperbacks and over time,as the glue degrades,shrinkage causes wrinkles/ripples.Yellow wraps with black letters.UK,8vo wraps,11-263pp. Mosley's long-awaited novel of the blues, the blues as black poetry and black tragedy,the blues as judgement on the American experience. Aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone and dying. He's played his music in a thousand bars and juke joints, but nothing, nothing could ever beat playing with Robert ?RL? Johnson back in the Mississippi Delta. Soupspoon is haunted by that brief encounter with the great musician, the genius who sold his soul to the Devil. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable and even internally,is also in an acceptable condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 25+ year-old age and nature, i.e an ephemeral paperback Proof.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of other detracting faults usually associated with a decades old paperback proof copy. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct, insured 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 wraps,Uncorrected,Advance Proof.
Not SIGNED.

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