Alan Moore - The Great When 2024, UK Uncorrected Proof Copy, Very Fine &

by Alan Moore

€47 · Offered by eBay

First edition

The Great When by Alan Moore, UK, Uncorrected Proof Copy, Bloomsbury 2024 Offering this uncorrected proof copy of THE GREAT WHEN by Alan Moore. Published by Bloomsbury, UK in October 2024. This copy is very fine and unread in illustrated and foiled wraps. 'I was in the wrong London. It was horrible. I'd fallen in by accident, and it was all alive and trying to eat me.' The year 1949, the city London. Hapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles through a city still shaking off the war. While out procuring inventory, Dennis's life changes forever when he chances upon a novel that shouldn't exist; an entirely fictional book from inside another novel. The book hails from The Great When, a magical shadow-London, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts like Crime, Poetry and Riot are incarnated as mystical beings that stalk the streets. This discovery brings terrible danger, as the book's presence leaves the doorway open between the two Londons, and The Great When must remain a secret. Soon Dennis finds himself in the city's occult underbelly, negotiating sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers – some imaginary, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. If Dennis cannot return the book and close the gate, he risks dire repercussions... Neither London will ever be the same again. History collides with magic in The Great When. Dark, ridiculous, propulsive, Sunday Times bestseller Alan Moore opens the gates to capital metafictional chaos in the genre-busting first insta

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Year: 2024
• Condition: Fine

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