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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn, but author's handwritten,black ink initialled signature - without dedication - to a special 'SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR' front free endpaper page,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy colour pictorial artwork by Steven Lenton,illustrated front+rear panels of dw/dj,with author's capitalised,embossed gilt-lettered name at front's top edge; similarly coloured+lettered part-parenthesised title at front's lower edge,a similarly coloured+lettered printed 'MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR' roundel,and also an adhesive circular b/w lettered SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR label.Spine/backstrip with author's capitalised,embossed gilt-lettered name at its head,blocked gilt-lettered parenthesised part of title,remainder of title capitalised, embossed gilt lettering and publisher's white-lettered+ illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with another different Steven Lenton colour pictorial…
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