The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.

Publisher: Macmillan, London, 1989, RARE. FIRST EDITION, uncorrected book proof.

Great condition soft cover. No inscriptions. Spine has a couple of slight creases. Closed page block has some minor marks on outside. Inside page has some faintest pencil marks - now erased.

A book proof (or uncorrected proof) is a preliminary version of a book used by publishers to catch errors in text and for marketing before final printing. They are VERY rare and are highly collectible, especially for popular authors such as Ken Follett, as they represent the earliest physical state of the work - and not for public sale. This is a pre-publication of the first edition which greatly increases it's rarity.

I've included a couple of photos which shows some examples of typos, and even whole sentences repeated when his manuscript was first typed up.

Set in the turbulent times of twelfth-century England when civil war, famine, religious strife and battles over royal succession tore lives and families apart, "The Pillars of the Earth" tells the story of the building of a magnificent cathedral.

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