First Light

Ackroyd,Peter (Signed Copy)

ISBN 10: 0241124980 / ISBN 13: 9780241124987

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989

About this Item

This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in publisher's blue cloth with bright gilt title lettering to spine,In a Very Good Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Slight sunning to spine.Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED without dedication by Peter Ackroyd on the Title Page.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.There is some tanning present to page edges,8vo 328pp First Edition 1st Impression.

Seller Inventory # 76941

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Light
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241124980
• ISBN 13: 9780241124987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Good copy - clean, no markings or inscriptions. Some tanning to page edges. DW has minor wear. Overall, good tight copy.

Review

First Light is not the darkest of Peter Ackroyd's novels (Hawksmoor has that honor), but fans of the macabre will relish its exhilarating combination of cosmic awe, ancient beings, and creepy underground tunnels, in a humorous suspense story as cleverly paced as a Hitchcock thriller. The story is that the excavation of a neolithic, astronomically aligned grave under the pastoral hills of Dorset, England, coincides with the startling reappearance of ancient stars (including H. P. Lovecraft's Aldebaran) in the night sky. A group of deliciously eccentric characters--archaeologists, astronomers, a stuffy civil servant, a stand-up comic, and vaguely menacing local villagers--converge at the site and collide with each other. As Gabriele Annan wrote in the London Sunday Telegraph, "Ackroyd is such a master of mood, of tension, angst, foreboding, frisson, but also of tenderness and exultation, that one is drawn into his tale as by a magus."