Earwig by Catling, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, signed by Catling on the title page, the book has a minor skew to the binding, and very light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in a crisp, unclipped, Near Fine dust jacket, which is wrapped in Mylar.

Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. About this Item ** SIGNED, NEW, FIRST EDITION ** London, Coronet, 2019. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. New in a new jacket protected in mylar. A pristine unread copy, opened only for author signature. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Smoke-free. The author was a British sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker and performance artist, known for The Vorrh trilogy. He died only three years after the publication of this novel. Synopsis A standalone novel by iconic artist and author of cult bestseller, The VorrhNot since Edgar Allan Poe and the Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita has there been such a masterly tale of feline evil.Earwig got his nickname from his grandfather.At the start of this story he is employed to look after a strange little girl in a flat in Liege. He spies on her, listens to her by holding a glass up to the wall.But he never touches her except when, as part of his duties, he is required to make teeth of ice and insert them in her gums.Earwig takes a rare day off, which he spends drinking by himself in Au Metro, a seedy bar full of drunks, dancers and eccentrics. It is St Martin's day and in the evening as crowds parade through the street carrying lanterns through the snow, he is drawn reluctantly into a conversation with a sinister stranger called Tyre. As a result Earwig accidentally maims a waitress with a broken bottle. He understands that on some level Tyre meant this to happen.Shortly afterwards a black cat is delivered to the flat, unasked for. The girl forms an immediate bond with it, but Earwig identifies it as the enemy.Travelling across country by train, transporting the girl and her black cat, Earwig is increasingly caught up in a web of unfortunate and increasingly violent coincidences.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. London, Coronet, 2019. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. A pristine unread copy, opened only for author signature. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. The author was a British sculptor, poet, novelist, film maker and performance artist, known for The Vorrh trilogy. He died only three years after the publication of this novel. Signed by Author(s).