DAN LENO AND THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint.[UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn originally and first published 1994.This the first reprint,also in the same year,1994,by same publisher.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour portrait painting,by Alan Baker, illustrated dw/dj panels,with white+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges slightly toned with some minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges also lightly toned but without foxing/spotting and generally brighter and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip,a red+yellow striped headband and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,1-281pp [paginated] includes 51 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and 2pp blanks at the rear.
Dan Leno,the great music hall comedian,was known in his lifetime as 'the funniest man on earth'. So how could he have been involved in one of the most curious episodes in London's history when,in a short period during the autumn of 1880,a series of murders was attributed to the mysterious 'Limehouse Golem'? In Peter Ackroyd's novel the world of late Victorian music hall and pantomime becomes implicated in a number of sinister scenes and episodes,and the connection between the light and dark sides of nineteenth century London begins to attract such contemporary figures as George Gissing and Karl Marx.But there are also less well known characters who play a significant role in the narrative which Peter Ackroyd has described as 'part fable,part adventure and part Gothic comedy'. What, for example,is the secret of Elizabeth Cree,about to hang for the murder of her husband? Peter Ackroyd has recreated 19thC London in a manner rarely achieved in modern fiction.His deep love for Victorian popular culture is combined here with an extraordinary cityscape in which the myth,science and philosophy of the period are seen as part of a universal pattern of human life and destiny. Want more Peter ACKROYD titles? Please check either my SIGNED, BIOGRAPHY, MODERN FIRSTS2,1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die,and GENERAL catalogues for other and similar,SIGNED and unsigned titles. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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