Kitty & Virgil. [Author SIGNED copy.]
by BAILEY**, PAUL:
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 1857024508
- ISBN 13
- 9781857024500
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Author's handwritten,ink signature to title page,just under his printed name to same. Colour,pictorial illustrated dw/dj by Charles Hunter; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges clean; contents,bright,tight and near pristine.Unblemished,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain cream endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,1-280pp includes title+half-title pages,contents list,a prologue,5 chapters,an epilogue and 5 poems to rear. 'Kitty and Virgil' is Paul Bailey's most ambitious novel to date. Although it is set in the 1980's it ranges back in time to 1930's Romania and to England in the 1950's.The book is rich with characters,and despite its tragic theme is often fiendishly funny.It is above all the story of two extraordinary families and the interweaving of their histories and secrets. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- Kitty & Virgil. [Author SIGNED copy.]
- Author
- BAILEY**, PAUL:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857024508
- ISBN 13
- 9781857024500
- Publisher
- LONDON.FOURTH ESTATE LTD.,1998.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Keywords
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