The Bookman Special Christmas Number 1926
Written by John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
uncommonly found in such lovely condition
with binding a little fragile with front and rear hinges beginning to crack and a handful of breaks to gutter throughout
A scarce example to be found in its original binding
The Island of the Day Before Agatha Christie The Bookman Special Christmas NumberUmberto 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