The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Photos on request!.Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. I will leave it up to more experienced sellers than I am to decipher those numbers and their significance. The owner of this book can choose which one to use. The very good plus jacket has the supposed "first issue" code (per Bill McBride's book Points Of Issue): "394-46792-2", the fine one has "394-46744-2". Two dustjackets come with this book: one very good plus, and a fine one. As dampstains go, this one is minor - I have seen much, much worse (and would grade those books much lower: "good", "fair", "poor", "hopeless", etc. The rest of the book is so nice, it is difficult for me to condemn it harshly just because of this problem.
long, with many pages marked to a much lesser degree. The effect on the interior looks like a small, faint, semi-circular shadow (with a slightly darker rim) at the far right edges of the pages, on the front and back sides of about 60 leaves: 1/2 cm. When the book is closed, this mark appears to be just a small white patch, lighter than the tanned page edges beside it, about 1" long by 1/4" wide. The other problem is a small splash mark to the fore-edge. The trivial flaw is a small name written at the top left corner of the front pastedown, hidden by the flap. It has two flaws, one trivial, the other more serious - other than these, the book is crisp and fine, a lovely copy. It is difficult for me to easily assign a condition term to this particular book: overall, "very good", I would say. First US edition, first printing (stated "First Edition" on the copyright page) of the author's spellbinding debut novel.
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