Alan achats Garner - The Stone Book Quartet (4 volumes, tous 1er/1er Royaume-Uni hb w dw)

Title: The Stone Book; Tom Fobble's Day; Granny Reardun; The Aimer Gate
Author: Alan Garner
Published: 1976; 1977; 1977 1978
Publisher: Collins, London
First edition/first impressions (‘First published 1976'; ‘First published 1977';‘First published 1977'; ‘First published 1978'); UK; hardback with dust wrapper(The Stone Book price-clipped; others not price-clipped, showing £2.50, £2.50, £2.95); covered in clear, removable protective wrapper

Very Good+/Very Good+ : all books in exceedingly good condition, clean& unmarked, The Aimer Gate has a little bumping at head & foot ofspine, Tom Fobble's Day has offsetting to rear pastedown; dust wrappers of TheStone Book and The Aimer Gate have a bit of wear & couple of v short tearsat edges

Truefirst editions of the four novellas which collectively make up Alan Garner's StoneBook Quartet. Before being published by Collins as a 172-page omnibusentitled The Stone Book Quartet in 1979, they were published separately,again by Collins, in slim volumes, across the years 1976-1978. Each of thebooks has front and rear jacket designs by Michael Foreman, who also providedetchings which appear throughout the text.

Thequartet of novellas, set in eastern Cheshire, as so often the case withGarner's work, they feature one day each in the life of four generations ofGarners family and they span more than a century. The narrative sequence ofthe books does not match exactly the publication order.

AlanGarner is an English novelist best known for his childrens fantasy novels andhis retellings of traditional British folk tales, most often set in and aroundhis native area of the North West of England. His other books include TheWeirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor and TheOwl Service. His most recent book, the memoir Powsels and Thrums waspublished in 2024, and, as far as I am aware, he still lives in Toad Hall, inBlackden, Cheshire.

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