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Gaiman, Neil. The Mapmaker - Lettered Edition. Hill House, 2003.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Letter 'D' from the Hill House lettered edition. Part of the Neil Gaiman Author's Preferred Limited Edition Series. Signed by Gaiman at the front cover. Wraps very good with light edgewear throughout, small pen markings to top corner and middle-top margin of front cover, and across spine; additional faint pen smudge and small stain to back cover. Purple ribbon binding, sound. Small stain to lower margin of page eight, without effect on text. Interior else clean. In original black envelope with title plate and 'D' in silver sharpie. Envelope has light edgewear and creasing. This self-contained and complete story was originally conceived as one of the interstitial pieces appearing throughout American Gods, but was not included in that final manuscript. While shared privately among friends and colleagues, it appeared in print for the first time in this edition. It was later published as part of the introduction to 2006's Fragile Things.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, two volumes, cloth. One of 750 numbered copies signed by Gaiman with a separate reader's copy has matching number but not signed. This edition adds 12,000 words cut from the original publication. "The central premise of the novel is that gods and mythological creatures exist because people believe in them (a type of thoughtform). Immigrants to the United States brought with them spirits and gods. The power of these mythological beings has diminished as people's beliefs wane. New gods have arisen, reflecting America's obsessions with media, celebrity, technology, and drugs, among other things." - Wikipedia. Nominated for virtually all the major genre awards it won the 2002 Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Bram Stoker awards. Now a major cable television serial. A fine copy in a cloth slipcase, without dust jacket as issued. The readers copy is fine in stiff wrappers. (21725)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: American Gods by Neil Gaiman Renata Sancken LTD Lettered "L" Marble & Wood Box Signed Books and slipcase in pristine condition with a clear protective guard laid to the front of the book. The Box is nearly pristine with a very small surface chip to the bottom right corner. Marble & Wood Box. First Limited Edition, stated. Author's Preferred Edition. Purple clothbound Book and Slipcase, paper spine label and mounted illustration to the book cover. Red clothbound Chapbook with printed paper title labels for the covers, and a bound-in ribbon placemarker. Lettered State. One of 52 copies. Signed by the Author. This is copy lettered "L". Chapbook signed by both Authors, and also lettered "L". The chapbook contains back-to-back - "An Astonishingly Incomplete Bibliography" by Gaiman, and "Only the Gods are Real" by Renata Sancken. The two books are housed in a custom box of stable multi-density fiberboard with a lacquered Rosewood veneer. The box stands upright with a door made of jet black marble with spiral doorknob. A sliding shelf holds the Slipcased book and chapbook. Includes a care sheet for the box.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.