JONES, Diana Wynne.

£675 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Time of the Ghost. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title and uncommon thus. This supernatural work draws on themes from Jones's own childhood to produce an unsettling "time-slip" story.Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011) was a hugely influential fantasy writer and has been cited as a key inspiration by fellow authors such as Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, and J. K. Rowling. She herself read English at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was taught by both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Her "extensive knowledge of myth, legend, and fairy tales sat easily with descriptions of contemporary young people, sometimes quarrelling but fundamentally of good heart" (ODNB). In 1999, she was awarded the Karl Edward Wagner prize for "important contribution to the genre" by the British Fantasy Society. This copy is from the library of noted science fiction collector Roger Earnshaw, and was signed at the Write Fantastic Event held at the Forbidden Planet Book Shop in London on 17 March 2007.

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