The Great and Secret Show

Buddy neither believed nor disbelieved his eyes: he simply stood before the experience as before feminine beauty, mesemerised. Only when the third round of laughter began did he grasp its direction, and start off at a run towards it, the light still vacillating.

A few yards on he saw a movement ahead of him through the trees. Bare skin. A girl stripping off her underwear. Beyond her was another girl, this one blonde, and strikingly attractive, beginning to do the same. He knew instinctively they weren't quite real, but he still advanced cautiously, for fear of startling them. Could illusions be startled? He didn't want to risk it; not with such pretty sights to see. The blonde girl was the last one undressed. There were three others, he counted, already wading out into a lake that flickered on the rim of solidity. Its ripples threw light up on to the blonde's face - Arleen, they named her as they shouted back to the shore. Advancing from tree to tree, he got within ten feet of the lake's edge. Arleen was in up to her thighs now. Though she bent to cup water in her hands and splash it on her body it was virtually invisible. The girls who were deeper in than she, and swimming, seemed to be floating in mid-air.
Ghosts, he half thought; these are ghosts. I'm spying on the past, being re-run in front of me. The thought propelled him from hiding. If his assumption was correct then they might vanish at any moment and he wanted to drink their glory down in gulps before they did. 

Signed Trade US some separation on the jacket beween paper and covering not noticable in mylar except above "Clive" on top of front of jacket around mailbox), signed, name only on title page.  Please do not ask for pictures, the book is priced for what it is, a nice signed 1st US edition that will be a good read and look good on the shelf

Signed Trade UK nf/nf signed and inscribed on titlepage

UK Limited - Limited to 526 of which this is one of 500 numbered, signed and traycased copies

Lettered: 26 copies signed, lettered and boxed for private distribution (OK, so the book itself is near fine, there is a small spot (pictured) on the back and a similar on the front.  The traycase is bumped as pictured and the hinge of the traycase look a little funky (for lack of a better term) but I think that is just the production, again look at the pictures.  The key here is “for private distribution!”  See pictures at top of page)