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8vo., [xvi], 519pp., with fine illustrations by Douglas Smith, silk ribbon marker, marbled endpapers, all edges blocked in gilt, bound in fine quality full brown leather, covers blocked with ornate gilt designs, spine gilt decorated in compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering. A fine bright clean copy. This LIMITED FIRST EDITION of O-ZONE is the true first edition of the book and precedes the trade edition, has been Privately Printed, and personally SIGNED by Paul Theroux exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. A total of 201 various classic First Editions by various authors were issued by the Franklin Library from 1983 until they ceased publishing in 2000. These books are highly collectible and are no longer available directly from the publisher. Beware, all who enter here. into the America of the 21st century, this forbidden land of nuclear waste, mutants, and aliens. Even now, so many years after the disaster, O-Zone remains under quarantine, off-limits. to all but the wealthiest Owners. To these eight Owners, it is amusement, a New Year's Eve picnic. The land's wild beauty awes them -- but the aliens are a shock: the two the Owners kill look disturbingly human. Haunted, Hooper Allbright will return to the depths of the zone -- and find, among the aliens, the only woman he's ever loved. His nephew Fisher, brilliant and tormented, will disappear into the alien's uncharted life -- first a victim, finally a hero. And Moura, made a mother by a man she never knew, will face the challenge of her long-buried craving. Beware, Owners, of the bitter brave new world. beware the O-Zone's most dangerous secret -- the fascination of the untamed. Seller Inventory # 3782
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