London: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670840505 . SIGNED by author (she signed her real name, Ruth Rendell) on full title page. First Edition with full numberline. "Barbara Vine's dark vision of London, in which apparently unconnected events are relentlessly drawn together, makes King Solomon's Carpet her finest novel to date." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minimal edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends. Light tanning to edges of pages. Otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear. Tiny creases on corners and spine ends. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 356 pages; Signed by Author .

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Eccentric Jarvis lives in a cumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who finds his terrifying thrills on the tube; and enigmatic Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all their lives. Damaged, dispossessed, outcasts, they are brought together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's dark and dangerous underground system.

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Bookseller: Good Books In The Woods (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 77567
Title: King Solomon's Carpet
Author: Vine, Barbara
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0670840505
ISBN 13: 9780670840502
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: 0670840505

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