THE LONG WAR. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with fluorescent red and silver gilt lettering to front and spine/backstrip,silver gilt lettered critics' reviews to rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, paper-covered matt colour photographic illustrated boards with bright,crisp white+red lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon edpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-422pp paginated] includes 69 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with b/w schematic craft plan to it's verso,a title page,both author's dedication,and towards the rear; acknowledgements,notes about the two authors with first page of publisher's advert for Pratchett's books to it's verso,3pp further Pratchett books,and 3pp Baxter's published works advert. 2nd title in the The Long Earth series.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 10+ year-old age.
The Long Earth is open.Humanity now spreads across untold worlds linked by fleets of airships encouraging exploration, trade and culture.
But while mankind may be shaping the Long Earth,the Long Earth is,in turn shaping mankind - and a collision of crises is looming.More than a million steps from our original Datum Earth a new America has emerged - a young nation that resents answering to the Datum government.And the trolls,those graceful,hive-mind humanoids whose song once suffused the Long Earth - are,in the face of man's inexorable advance, beginning to fall silent.
And to disappear.It was Joshua Valiente who, with the omniscient being known as Lobsang,first explored these multiple worlds all those years ago.And it is to Joshua that the Long Earth now turns for help.Because there is the very real threat of war.A war unlike any fought before.
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