Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates, or with endless paths in deep dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairytales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth ...
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Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk Faerie is never as far away as you think. Sometimes you find you have crossed an invisible line and must cope, as best you can, with petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates, or with endless paths in deep dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes bedevilled by such problems in these fairytales include a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor and Mary Queen of Scots, as well as two characters from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: Strange himself and the Raven King.
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Vess, Charles. New, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by illustrator Charles Vess on the title page (signature and date only). 1st UK edition, 1st printing, complete number line. New, unread copy. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified. Includes: Unspecified, Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Although new, there is some rubbing to the book spine and mild toning to the edges of the pageblock. Vess is the World Fantasy Award-, Inkpot Award-, Eisner Award-, Silver Award-, Hugo Award-, and Locus Award-winning illustrator of works by Neil Gaiman, Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, Charles de Lint, Ursula K. Le Guin, and works of his own. Stories from the Jonathan Strange alternate history universe by the Women's Prize for Fiction-, Time's Best Novel of the Year-, Hugo Award-, Locus Award, Mythopoeic Award-, World Fantasy Award-, British Book Award-, and Kitschies Red Tentacle-winning author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Piranesi. Rare signed.
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