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9780857522276Raising Steam
Raising Steam
Publisher Doubleday
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Comes with promotional bookmark in the form of a train ticket.
Very good first edition with some bruising to spine and some foxing to page block. Very slight creasing to the top tips of several pages. In a near-fine unclipped dust jacket with some light bruising to the top back corner.
About the book
Its all change for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, conman, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office.
A steaming, clanging new invention, driven by Dick Simnel, the man with tflat cap and tsliding rule, is drawing astonished crowds - including a few particularly keen young men armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear and suddenly its a matter of national importance that the trains run on time.
Moist does not enjoy hard work. His . . .vital input at the bank and post office consists mainly of words, which are not that heavy. Or greasy. And it certainly doesnt involve rickety bridges, runaway cheeses or a fat controller with knuckledusters. What he does enjoy is being alive, which may not be a perk of running the new railway. Because, of course, some people have OBJECTIONS, and theyll go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks.
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About the Author
Terry Pratchett
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