ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz The Midnight Palace London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2011.
Small 8vo., publisher's yellow/orange boards decorated in metallic red and black; pp. [viii], 281, [i]; fine.
First edition in English, formally published in Spain as El Palacio de la medianoche. This edition limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. This no. 686. With a translation by Lucia Graves, daughter of Robert Graves.
The second in a series of Young Adult adventures from the author of The Shadow of the Wind. Set in Calcutta during the First World War, The Midnight Palace tells the story of fraternal twins, a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.
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