Campbell, Ramsey

The Long Lost

ISBN: 0747206651
London, England, UK: Headline Book Publishing PLC, 1993. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ramsey Campbell. "For David and Joelle Owain it begins as a welcome weekend jaunt away from Chester where they run a house repair and decorating business. Their leisurely drive through the June sunshine takes them to a remote peninsula in Wales...to an abandoned village...and to a tiny offshore island. It is on this rocky outcrop amid the glittering sea that they first encounter Gwendolen- though to begin with they are not even sure she is still living and breathing." (from front flap) The page-turning, suspenseful & as-ever disturbing novel by Ramsey Campbell (b. 1946), the award-winning, popular & prolific British horror-fiction author. Another exemplar of the style that has been praised by such genre masters as Stephen King & Peter Straub, & has been deemed by some critics as a worthy successor to that of icons of the macabre including H.P. Lovecraft. It is of importance to us Third Minds that in his precocious youth during the 1960s, Campbell corresponded with, was inspired & mentored by none other than William S. Burroughs, the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise- see our presentation, The Cut-Up Life of WSB, which was delivered at the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu) Conference during September 2023, from the carousel of our site, to learn more. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first UK edition "First published in Great Britain in 1993" as stated at copyright page (preceding the first American edition of the following year), first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. On the title page, below his printed name, Campbell has hand-written his large, energetic signature in bold black ink. An essential & rewarding Campbell collectible in its rarest contemporary form, greatly enriched by his signature. See also our item No.s 6253, 7050, 7052, 7094. Book in very fine condition with only a few tiny bumps at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; mild-to-moderate browning to edges of text block esp. upper & side-edges. Interior very fine with only mild-to-moderate browning to page leaves, chiefly at blank margins/edges. Dust jacket very fine with only a touch of rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; a few tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same & flaps. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #7153]

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