The Angel’s Game

ZAFON, Carlos Ruiz 

The Angel’s Game 

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009 

Large 8vo., navy-blue boards lettered and lined in metallic red to backstrip, with publisher’s device to foot; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£18.99 to front flap) designed by ‘GHOST’; decorative endpapers showing marble statues; pp. [viii], 3-453, [v]; with each ‘act’ featuring a black and white photograph page; the book near-fine, with slight bumping to spine tips and mild toning to the edges of the text block; a couple of small brown spots to the fore-edge; the wrapper similarly near-fine, just a touch creased and pressed to spine tips and corners, with circular Waterstones sticker to the front panel.

First UK edition, signed by the author to the title page. printed in Spain the previous year and here appearing in a translation by Lucia Graves (the daughter of Robert Graves). One of the books in Zafon’s ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ series, which are designed to be read in any order. One of this bookseller’s favourite books, the novels seamlessly blend mystery, romance and gothic horror on the streets of Barcelona.