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Pratchett, Terry.
The Carpet People.
Publisher: Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross;
Date of Publication: 1971
Stock Code: 8317
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Square octavo, pp 195, [1]. Numerous in-text illustrations by the Author. Publishers’ dark olive green cloth with gilt titles to spine in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the author in his usual inimitable style to the title page. Corners and spine tips very slightly rubbed; contents clean and crisp with Author’s signature to title page in blue ink. Jacket slightly creased to edge with a couple of minor nicks, and small stains to rear panel. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. The Author’s first published novel, which he substantially re-wrote and re-published in 1992, a children’s comic fantasy novel containing much of the humour and some of the concepts which characterise the Discworld series. Sold