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Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief. Doubleday, 2007.
Price: US$646.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the title page. Precedes the first children's edition published by Bodley Head. Original black cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. A very small and unobtrusive ding to head and foot of spine, else fine in a fine dust jacket. A fantastic example.
Seller: Fine Book Cellar Ltd. ABA ILAB PBFA, Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED BY AUTHOR!! True First UK Edition, First Printing, Full Number-line with # 1 (Doubleday, 2007)**UNREAD** A BEAUTIFUL BOOK! This book was signed for me in Dallas, Texas at the Barbara Bush Foundation For Literacy event. Markus gave the most humble and beautiful speech! Photos of Mr. Zusak signing and speaking as well as a photo-copy of the event program will be included for provenance. Signed on the Full Title Page. The photographs are for the book you are buying. Now, the book: Hardcovers are As New, sharp corners. Spine is Fine, perfect gold lettering, no creasing, UNREAD. Pages are clean, with no writing or folding, very light age tanning as is common in this title, but this copy MUCH, MUCH less so. Dust Jacket is As New, VERY RARE for this fragile jacket, Protected in a clear archival sleeve. £12.99 Price is intact. This is the Second UK Hardcover, often called the "children's edition" (only because of the "milder" dust Jacket artwork, no changes to the story), published three weeks after The Doubleday "adult" edition. (Original Australian Soft-cover was first published in Australia in 2005) (US Hardcover was first published in 2006 by Knopf), (The UK First Hardcovers published in 2007). **Please Note: Extra insurance charges will apply.** **I also am a collector and know all too well what it is like receiving a book not as described. This does not happen here. I am passionate about honesty, quality and customer satisfaction. I have a NO DISAPPOINTMENT policy. My books are always carefully shipped in well-padded boxes and always smoke and odor free.**
Seller: Neil Rutledge, Bookseller, Yantis, TX, U.S.A.