Neverwhere >>>> A SUPERB UK DOUBLE SIGNED & NUMBERED FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<

Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean

ISBN 10: 0563387467 / ISBN 13: 9780563387466

Edité par BBC Books, London, 1996

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A near fine UK first edition & first printing hardback (slight spotting to textblock) - in a near fine unclipped dustjacket (fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY NEIL GAIMAN - One of 500 numbered copies - ALSO SIGNED BY DAVE MCKEAN Pictures available upon request. N° de réf. du vendeur 006867

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Titre : Neverwhere >>>> A SUPERB UK DOUBLE SIGNED & ...

Éditeur : BBC Books, London

Date d'édition : 1996

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Part fiction, part fantasy, part hyper-reality, this is a story about the Other London, where people live in the cellars and sewers and abandoned Underground lines. It is a London divided into "Baronies", in which the common names of London places take a new and strange reality.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author's ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his "preferred text"—and including his special Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back"

Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman's darkly hypnotic first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent and became a touchstone of urban fantasy. Over the years, a number of versions were produced both in the U.S. and the U.K. Now Gaiman's preferred edition of his classic novel reconciles these works and reinstates a number of scenes cut from the original published books.

Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he discovers a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. He stops to help her—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed.

Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in the Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. The Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Door, a noblewoman whose family has been murdered, is on a quest to find the agent that slaughtered her family and thwart the destruction of this underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life, he must join the journey to save Door's world—and find a way to survive.

A hallucinatory fantasia of mystery, mythology, and terror that "draws equally from George Lucas, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and John Milton" (USA Today), Neverwhere is an "Alice in Wonderland with a punk edge" (Poppy Z. Brite), "that is both the stuff of dreams and nightmares" (San Diego Union-Tribune).