AMIS, KINGSLEY

Green Man, the

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0224617400. First Edition. A Very Good+ blue Hardcover with gilt titles to the spine. Blue top edges. A sound binding with clean & unmarked pages. Light spine end bumping with a bump to the bottom front cover corner. The DJ is clipped, glossy with cover rubbing and edgewear. "A ghost story for adults. Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. "; 7.75"; 253 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27243

Catalogue: Fiction, Horror, Classics, Fantasy, British Literature

Keywords: 0224617400 Fiction > Horror Classics British Literature Fantasy Fiction Horror Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature