Author: AMIS KINGSLEY
Title: Alteration, the
Description: London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Light green Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Very Good++ book with a solid binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+ with light cover rubbing and edge wear. Light bumping to the bottom spine end, sharp corners. "It is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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