The Paper Grail

Blaylock, James P.

ISBN 10: 0441651267 / ISBN 13: 9780441651269

Published by U.S.A.: Ace Hardcover, 1991

About this Item

This is the first trade edition of Jim Blaylock's The Paper Grail, after a limited leatherbound edition. The book is unread, square and tight, with no visible flaws. It's INSCRIBED by Blaylock to this bookseller/author and his ex, a prominent California bookseller, as pictured. The dust jacket is protected in a mylar wrapper, and the single-owner book has been kept in a smoke-free environment. All my signatures are guaranteed authentic; this is a partial liquidation of a private collection, and unless otherwise noted, all signatures were obtained in person.

Seller Inventory # 151800

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Paper Grail
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Ace Hardcover
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441651267
• ISBN 13: 9780441651269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

Howard Barton travels to Mendocino looking for a sketch by the Japanese artist Hoku-sai, but others are also interested in the drawing, and Howard finds himself in the middle of a private war between secret, underground societies

From the Back Cover

Howard Barton comes to the remote northern coast of California in search of a folded scrap of paper rumoured to bear a sketch by the legendary Japanese artist Hokusai. Unfortunately, there are plenty of others in search of the Paper Grail ...

Mrs Lamey, who waters her garden with blood, among other strange and noxious substances; the enigmatic Mr Jimmers whose garden shed conceals a bizarre invention designed to raise the dead; Uncle Roy, founder of The Museum of Modern Mysteries and builder of haunted houses.

In Mendocino, nothing is what it first appears ... but everything is connected, and Howard will have to work out whose side he’s on, as he is led into o a vicious battle between mysterious underground societies ...

“Blaylock is better than anyone else at showing us the magic that secretly animates our world”
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“Blaylock allows us to see the mundane world through new eyes, to perceive the familiar as strange and therefore fascinating – for what it is as well as for what it might be”
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