THE WALKING STICK.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,female portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with white+orange lettering, rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - a couple of small,1/2" high closed tears to foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj,one each to each of spine/backstrip's gutter's edges and with light reciprocal creasing.Top rear corner of dw/dj minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss too.Light, superficial scoring to both panels of dw/dj,but without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges though very lightly toned, are generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original speckled orange cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-318pp [paginated] includes 27 chapters; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title+title pages,and 2pp blanks at the rear. Want more Winston GRAHAM titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2 catalogue. Winston Graham's new novel is the story of a girl of twenty-six who has been crippled in her childhood.The story tells how Deborah Dainton, convinced of her physical lack of attractiveness for men,becomes gradually persuaded of the reality of one man's love for her,it tells how, warmed by this love,she blossoms into the full self-abnegation of a woman in love - and so moves into a life that leads by small but sinister steps into full co-operation in a precisely executed and dangerous enterprise - described in the novel as it occurs minute by minute in masterly detail.As in his earlier famous books,Winston Graham writes here of a crisis in the lives of people for whom character governs destiny.His people,conceived in the round with backgrounds that make them as they are,act out a high drama with all its consequences,material and moral.The fate of these people,as revealed by a master craftsman, conveys a tension perhaps unequalled in contemporary story-telling.This is a book which will tempt the reader to speed on to discover the ending - yet no one will want to miss the texture and the turns of fate that lie along the way. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct and possibly,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!