The Great When

Alan Moore

earliest edition we have, 2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024

The Long London Quintet

Dennis Knuckleyard is a hapless eighteen-year-old who works and lives in a second-hand bookstore. One day, his boss and landlady, Coffin Ada, sends him to retrieve some rare books, one of which, Dennis discovers, should not exist. A London Walk by Rev. Thomas Hampole is a fictitious book that appears in a real novel by another author. Yet A London Walk is physically there in his hands, nonetheless. Coffin Ada tells...

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El gran cuando paperback · 2025 · Nocturna Ediciones · 400 pages · 9788419680822
The Great When edition · 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 336 pages · 9781526643230
The Great When edition · 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781526643223
The Great When hardcover · 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA · 315 pages · 9781635578843

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