Asta’s Book (Limited and signed)
Inbunden bok. Scorpion Press. First, limited edition. Signed by the author uppl. 1993. 437 sidor.
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Asta’s Book (Limited and signed)
Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine
Observera att denna bok är på engelska. Please note that this book is in English.
The book is a hardcover with dust jacket. It is read, but in condition as new. The acetate dust jacket has a little damage. I’ve tried to take a photo of the damage, but it’s too small to show on the photo.
Published by Scorpion Press in 1993.
First, limited edition. Signed by the author.
ISBN 1873567103
A copy of this book costs at least £ 238 on the Internet
Books from Scorpion Press are signed limited editions which are attractive to handle and add distinction to any collection; they are often, but not always available before the trade edition, and they have exclusively to Scorpion Press, an original appreciation of the author by a writer of note.
This limited edition is bound from the sheets of the first edition and published by arrangement with Viking Publishers Ltd.
A new signed limited edition (number 14 out of 99 copies), quarter bound in dark green leather with marbled boards, in a clear acetate dust jacket See above!.
Signed by the author. With an appreciation by her champion the late Julian Symons.
Asta's Book is a classic double-detective story by crime master Barbara Vine
For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta's secret' Sunday Times
It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal. For they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing child. It falls to Asta's granddaughter Ann to unearth the buried secrets of nearly a century before.
'A dazzling domestic thriller' Guardian
'Obsessively readable' Sunday Telegraph
'Engrossing . . . a mixture of biography, true crime and romance people with vivid minor players and red with herrings' Independent on Sunday
'Absolutely enthralling ... the best yet from the Vine/Rendell bureau. Essential reading' Literary Review
Format: 24x16x3,5 cm, 437 pages.
