POLLEN.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally and first published in the UK by a small publishing house RINGPULL PRESS LTD.,as p/back Original,1995 preceding this HB 1st edn published March,1995 and also preceding the first US, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,by Crown Publishers,of Feb,1996. The sequel to VURT.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,pink background with colour image by Joe Magee,illustrated inset to front panel with yellow+white letters,rear panel with critics' white lettered reviews; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges toned - as this issue is prone to; contents tight and clean with page-edge toning otherwise solid,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original plain orange/mustard cloth boards with bright,crisp,gilt blocked letters to spine/backstrip,and plain white endpapers with minimal edge toning and some narrow,slight foxing(?) to top,bottom and fore-edges of same.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-327pp [paginated] includes story over course of period of Monday,1st May to Tuesday,9th May and the final day,Monday,28th August; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,John Barleycorn poem,3pp font/type representing a sneeze,a prose extract of 'The Looking Glass Wars' by R. B. Tshimosa and individual Day separator pages.
First impression of the true first hardback edition of author's 2nd novel - the sequel to VURT - published in a small print run of 1200 copies by a Manchester 'small press' publishing house.See my book ID rja913920 for UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn example for VURT.
In a strange re-mixed future Manchester a cloud of pollen descends - a new strain,each tiny grain a murderer. Within days the streets of the city are overgrown with vicious blooms as the fiercest hay fever epidemic of all time takes hold.People are sneezing themselves to death and the pollen count is racing towards 2000.A small percentage of the population are immune to the fever.Two of them - shadow-cop Sibyl Jones and her wayward daughter Boda - are on separate paths into the dark place from where the pollen originates.What they find there will change their lives forever. The fate of Manchester depends upon them.
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