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London: Harper Collins, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Excellent book in very good+ DJ. No inscriptions. Mr Hood’s holiday house has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied... There is price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr Hood’s wonders, does not stop to consider the consequences. It is only when the House shows its darker face - when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadow - that he comes to doubt Mr Hood’s philanthropy. The House and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle however. Mr Hood has ambitions for his new guest, for Harvey’s soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered in a thousand years... Illustrated throughout.

London: Doubleday, 2005. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good +. London, Doubleday Children's Books, 2005 Hardcover complete with dust jacket. 362 pages. Very Good+/Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped, no inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh...and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do." Black cloth covered boards with gilt… Read More

London: Doubleday, 2000. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Josh Kirby. Very slight creasing to top of spine of the unclipped DJ. No markings or inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: "William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discword's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at the Truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...