Author: LINES MARIAN
Title: Spiders of the Morning
Description: Autolycus Publications, U.K. 1983. First Edition, Paperback, Illustrated by: Cole Diana De Vere. Very Good Condition. 71 pages, size 8.25 inches tall by 5.75 inches in card covers. Illustrated with line drawings by Diana De Vere Cole. For children 9 -13. 'What is the secret of Joanna's furtive, Buddha-like landlady Mrs Caligari-Walshe, with her fluttering ribbons, frills and laces? In this vivid, warmly human story with a strong mystery element, Marian Lines shows narrative skill and imaginative power - an impressive debut in the area of quality fiction for this age-group. Joanna's illness and hallucinations become confused ,with the secretive, spider-ridden existence of the locked room on the first floor of the home in London where she lives. Dreams mix with actuality, and clues are apparently dropped by the other tenants, as if to confirm the nightmare growing in Joanna's mind: that Mr Caligari-Walshe is locked in one of the rooms - but is he dead or alive? Through the keyhole, and sometimes through a grimy fire-escape window, Joanna peers with horrid fascination. She recovers from her illness and returns to school, relieved at the normality of the world of friends and work. But at Hallowe'en there is a crisis at No. 111: the tenants are involved in a terrible row with the landlady, who has become more and more unpredictable and strange. Joanna's obsession with spiders returns, and with it the nightmares. During a firework party in the square a rocket crashes into the conservatory, exploding by an oilstove. The house burns like a torch, and while the firemen try to save it, Mrs Caligari-Walshe is seen tugging what looks like a man's body out of the first-floor window onto the fire escape ...' Book - in Near Fine [better than Very Good] bright orange card covers with an illustrated front cover - minor rubbing to the extreme corners. Contents, minor marking to the half title page otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Illustrator: Cole Diana De Vere. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 0.16 kilos. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; Inventory No: 196056.

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