The Properties of Rooftop Air

The Properties of Rooftop Air by Tim Powers. Fine condition used 2020 First Print/ First Deluxe Hardback Edition with intact unclipped Dust Jacket. Published by Subterranean Press, USA. Author: Tim Powers. Dust Jacket illustration by David Palumbo ISBN: 9781596069749. Approx. dims: 210mm h x 135mm w x 14mm d. Intact clean condition pictorial dust jacket with slight signs of handling. Intact DJ spine. Dust Jacket over very good condition grey cloth boards with red lettering to spine. 78 clean inside pages of English text, no inscriptions. Images shown are of actual book for sale. Synopsis: An Anubis Gates story. In the slum known as the St. Giles rookery in 19th century London, the beggar guild run by Horrabin the Clown is the last resort of the down-and-out. Horrabin is rumored to maim his people to make them more effective mendicants, and when dimwitted beggar Isaac Fairchild is summoned by the clown, he fears the worst. But in the subterranean chamber known as the Nursery, Fairchild learns that Horrabin’s purpose is to greatly increase his intelligence, by grafting his rudimentary mind into the group mind shared by Horrabin’s gang of Spoonsize Boys—alchemically-hatched homunculi, two-inch-tall men employed by the clown for subtle thefts and assassinations. …