Mortal Engines ***SIGNED 1st PRINTING***

Philip Reeve

ISBN 10: 0439993458 / ISBN 13: 9780439993456

Edité par Scholastic Press, London, 2001

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First British Edition, First Printing with full number line. Signed, without inscription, by author on the FULL title page. New unread Fine book with bruised spine ends in Fine dust jacket illustrated by David Frankland - not the ABE stock image shown. All our books are bubble wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box with Delivery Confirmation. NO remainder mark, NO previous owner markings or inscriptions, NOT price clipped, NOT a Book Club Edition, NOT an Ex-Lib. Dust jacket covered in protective clear wrapper.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Mortal Engines ***SIGNED 1st PRINTING***
• Éditeur: Scholastic Press, London
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0439993458
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780439993456
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: David Frankland
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Signé: Signed

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Synopsis

Tom and Hester have been thrown together, literally thrown out of a city that's left them stranded and starving in the middle of nowhere while it hares off after its prey. Hester is desperate for revenge, Tom is desperate to get back on board his beloved London. This is an adventure story set in a fantasy world where moving cities trawl the globe.

Présentation de l'éditeur

London is hunting

The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism.

Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious Hester Shaw -- only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks of the city, the sinister plans of London's leaders begin to unfold ...