A Soul in a Bottle by Tim Powers ISBN 13: 9781596060746

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed, limited, and numbered edition; number 439 of 500.A first edition of a 1968 book of poems, with a sonnet that appears in no other copy - a mysterious girl with a special fountain pen, who needs a special favour - and an old woman who warns used book dealer George Sydney that helping the girl he's fallen in love with will mean that he will never have fallen in love. Hollywood Boulevard, with its bars and used book stores and the legendary Chinese Theatre, is the psychic killing ground where Sydney must learn the rules of an old supernatural rivalry - and choose to save either the woman he loves, or his soul.Includes 3 sonnets by "Cheyenne Fleming", the main character from the book. Each sonnet slip is laid in as loose pages.