King Solomon's Carpet (SIGNED Copy)

London: Viking. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670840505 . SIGNED by the AUTHOR. FINE Black boards with Clear, Solid White titling to the spine. Sharp cornered and very clean. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. The d/j is now in a new protective clear - removable - bookfilm plastic cover. The d/j is NOT price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST Printing with the Correct Printers Key - 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. (x) + 356 pp + 2 (blank) pp. Pages/page fore-edges just beginning to turn light cream, with age, uniformly, rather than white = negligible - but the top page-edge only, has some small light foxing (light yellow-brown) spots. All hinges tight. Top edge spotting apart, this is overall a FINE Copy of this Book in a Similar dustjacket. Looks unread? This copy has been flat SIGNED by the AUTHOR to the top of the tile page above the printed name 'Barbara Vine', where she has written "Ruth Rendell as" on the Title Page. NO other Inscriptions or Marks. A Lovely Clean, probably unread copy - "Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives... ". 'King Solomon's Carpet' - Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award - is a modern masterpiece of the crime genre and will leave you gripped from the first page to the last. See Images. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author .