The Nine Pound Hammer [Signed] (The Clockwork Dark, Vol. 1)

Red boards with gold lettering, 357 pp. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear and rubbing, front flap lightly creased. An attractive copy. ; Book One of the Clockwork Dark trilogy, signed by author on title page. ; The Clockwork Dark; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 357 pages; " When twelve-year-old Ray falls in with a band of young sideshow performers traveling through the South in a rickety old train, he feels at home for the first time in years. But something strange is going on. From a locked train car, Ray hears hypnotic singing. And the performers themselves - the strong man, the fire-eater, the blind sharpshooter . . . Their talents seem almost magical. Ray investigates and discovers that the old stories about John Henry and Johnny Appleseed are true in ways he never would have dreamed, that an ancient evil these characters fought is rising again, and that Ray himself may have a place in new stories only now being written. "In the first book of the Clockwork Dark trilogy, John Claude Bemis draws upon the rich history of America's tall tales to create a white-knuckle fantasy adventure. "; Signed by Author.…