Misery by Stephen King
but its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and it is now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works" (ODNB)
Frontispiece and 16 pages of colour plates
Some fold-out prints partially cut where they fold
with binding a little fragile with front and rear hinges beginning to crack and a handful of breaks to gutter throughout
The Island of the Day Before Agatha Christie Misery by Stephen KingUmberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before. London: Secker and Warburg, [1995]. First UK Ed & Print, signed by the author. The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs from the island beyond: the island of the day before. If he could reach it, time