THE VALLEY OF SECRETS.** [Author SIGNED copy.** - Illus by Rose Forshall.**]

UK,8vo French wraps,author SIGNED,1st edn.UK,8vo French wraps,author SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp. [Paperback original,paperback 1st edn.] FINE.No owner inscrptn,but a neat,handwritten expansive black ink signature of Charmian Hussey - without dedication to title page,no publisher's price to b/w,double-page illustrated endpapers (aerial view of Lansbury Hall and b/w Amazonian Basin map respectively) French card wraps,with Waterstone's (a UK bookseller chain) sticker to bottom, right-hand corner of upper wrap.Glossy,colour pictorial onlay to upper wrap+white lettering; publisher precis and critics' reviews to rear wrap,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges, corners and spine/backstrip,no reading creases to same - no nicks or tears present.Bottom corner of rear wrap minimally creased,lightly affecting some similar pages' corners.Top+fore-edges bright and generally clean,though there is light marking to centre of fore-edges,contents bright,tight and near pristine.UK,8vo wraps/paperback,(390pp),1-384pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2 comprising 77 chapters and an epilogue,over 80,one at the head of each chapter and vignette chapter tail-pieces,b/w pen+ink illustrations by Christopher Crump, acknowledgements,4pp Species List,2pp Select biblio,1pp list of relevant organisations,plus [unpaginated] blank - recto of which has dedication,author SIGNED title page,Pts 1+2 separator pages,and 4pp blanks to rear.A low print run of 3,000 copies worldwide for the 1st edn.
Written for,(published Sept 16th,2003) and launched at Cornwall's Eden Project Sept 19th, 2003,and an acclaimed debut novel.
Abandoned as a baby,Stephen had nearly given up hope of ever finding his family.
This epic adventure follows his change in fortunes as he receives an unexpected letter from a strange source and sets off on an unforgettable journey.From a drab room in London,where the rain confirms the greyness in his life,Stephen travels to a Cornish Valley; remote,exquisitely beautiful and heavy with secrets.This unique tale,beautifully decorated with Christopher Crump's highly detailed pen and ink drawings,will absorb your reading moments as it sweeps from London to Cornwall to the Amazonian rain forest on a journey which is, quite simply unforgettable.
A children's novel written 17 years ago,and was stored in a loft for over a decade, before being published and expresses the ex-model's interest in indigenous tribal peoples of the world,her concern for the world's rainforests and her love of the Cornish countryside,where she now lives and farms with her husband.
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