New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; two-toned (blue cloth over green boards stamped in gilt), green pastedowns and flyleaves; pictorial dust jacket by Charles Geer with $8.95 price intact; 282pp. Board corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, some soil spots to textblock, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding is sound, very light rubbing to dust jacket corners and spine ends, verso of jacket is slightly toned, else a Near Fine copy with signed bookplate loosely laid in at front. A gothic romance set on the cliffs of Cornwall with a demon lover, wary villagers, and an ancestral curse to boot.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Wait for What Will Come [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

Publisher

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York

Publication Date

1978

Language

English

ISBN 10

0396075770

ISBN 13

9780396075776

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

When Carla Tregallas inherits a manor house on the stark cliffs of Cornwall, she also inherits a disturbing prophecy: on Midsummer's Eve she will become the bride-in-death of a demon lover from the sea

About the Author

Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar� Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

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