Having freed the children enslaved in the northern mines, Is Twite and her cousin Arun return to Folkestone to find Arun's mother. But she has disappeared without a trace. There's plenty of evidence of strange goings-on now that the Channel Tunnel is open, and smugglers called the Merry Gentry have the whole countryside terrified. Is and Arun are up against the evil Dominic de la Twite and the sneaky Admiral Fishskin in this witty adventure. An "American Bookseller" Pick of the Lists.
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Having freed the children enslaved in the northern mines, Is Twite and her cousin Arun return to Folkestone to find Arun's mother. But she has disappeared without a trace. There's plenty of evidence of strange goings-on now that the Channel Tunnel is open, and smugglers called the Merry Gentry have the whole countryside terrified. Is and Arun are up against the evil Dominic de la Twite and the sneaky Admiral Fishskin in this witty adventure. An "American Bookseller" Pick of the Lists.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0385321821. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 283 pages; 1996 Delacorte Press. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in sharp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket from art by Edward Gorey. Publisher's $15.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. No marks of any kind. Superficial shelf rubing to jacket edges and a pair of very short closed tears top edge. Handsome 1st printing copy. NF/VG++
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Very good hardcover with very good dust jacket. First US edition with cover art by Edward Gorey. Spine very slightly cocked.
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Gorey, Edward dust jacket. Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) A bright, tight copy signed by the author on an inserted bookplate (not affixed to book). Colorful DJ is not price-clipped, protected in mylar. Boards are well-bound, sprinkling of foxing along textbox edges; pages bright & clean throughout.
