DROOD: A Novel. [SIGNED by DAN SIMMONS in the year of publication with a LARGE PEN & INK DRAWING by Simmons].

by Simmons, Dan.

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, (2009)., (2009).. Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red boards backed with a black cloth spine, titled in gilt on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The bottom corner of the front cover and dust jacket is heavily bumped. [vi] & 777 pages. Very good. First edition, with the full number line. Signed by Dan Simmons on the title page in the year of publication above a large pen & ink drawing of "Drood" by him."Drood ... is the name and nightmare that obsesses Charles Dickens for the last five years of his life. On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying Dickens are smashed to bits in the valley below. When Dickens descends into that valley to confront the dead and dying, his life will be changed forever. And at the core of that ensuing five-year nightmare is... Drood...." [Quoted from the dust wrapper blurb].

• Publisher: New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, (2009).
• Year: 2009
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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