WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEAT (First edition - first impression)

First impression of the true first edition, with the full number-string sequence, including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. ***Near fine in grey cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with nNo inscriptions. Pages clean with no foxing. No creases or tears. Monochrome illustrated front and rear endpapers. Integral silver satin reading ribbon. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £20.00. The dustwrapper has no discernible faults. No creases or tears. No fading. Dustwrapper crisp and bright. ***242mm x 162mm. 326 pages including author's acknowledgments at the back of the book. ***'On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century has to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. ***His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. ***The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally - unforgettably - back into the trenches of the Western Front. ***The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks's fiction are brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks's most remarkable book yet.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original dustwrapper, in bright near fine condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…