{"product_id":"dying-flames-robert-barnard-1st-usa-edition-signed-inscribed","title":"Dying Flames, Robert Barnard — 1st USA Edition, Signed \u0026 Inscribed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e New York, Scribner, 2006\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. [viii], 256.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Good; Very Good dust jacket. The text block is square and tightly bound, with pages remaining exceptionally clean, crisp, and entirely free from foxing or internal toning. The structural integrity of the binding is excellent; however, there is significant adhesion damage to the front board. It appears the dust jacket previously adhered to the board's surface, and upon separation tore away a section of the paper casing, leaving residue stuck to the blind side of the jacket's front flap fold. Externally, the unclipped dust jacket presents handsomely, retaining bright, unfaded colours with only minor rubbing to the spine ends and extremities. The jacket's flaw is restricted to the internal adhesion residue, which remains completely hidden when housed in a protective sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e First US Edition, First Printing. Originally published in the UK by Allison \u0026amp; Busby the previous year, this Scribner release marks the first American appearance of the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume boasts excellent literary provenance as a significant association copy. It is warmly inscribed in blue ink on the preliminary leaf: \u003ci\u003e\"To Eileen, Greetings + love! from Bob + Louise.\"\u003c\/i\u003e The recipient is fellow esteemed British crime writer Eileen Dewhurst, highlighting a fond connection between two contemporaries of the mystery genre. The author, Robert Barnard (\"Bob\"), signs alongside his wife and long-time collaborative partner, Louise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAssociation copies linking two celebrated mystery authors offer an uncommon and highly desirable piece of literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraham Broadbent is a quietly successful novelist coasting through a comfortably uneventful life. This gentle tranquility is abruptly shattered when a nineteen-year-old girl named Christabel appears at his hotel door and confidently greets him with, \"Hello, Dad.\" Though he knows he is childless, Graham is quickly drawn into a tangled web of past secrets, deception, and the ghost of a desperate youthful passion. As the lies of Christabel's mother begin to bleed into the present, Graham finds himself entangled in a real-life mystery far darker and more dangerous than any he has penned. When the deception inevitably culminates in murder, Graham is forced into a chilling re-evaluation of everything he thought he knew, in a masterful tale of suspense that proves some memories are better left buried.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53760729448787,"sku":"4072-RM-FS-LN-4","price":37.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260609_140951.jpg?v=1781014238","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/dying-flames-robert-barnard-1st-usa-edition-signed-inscribed","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}