Overall about fine with the original fine unclipped dust jacket protected in archival mylar collector dust jacket sleeve. Mild shelf wear to edges and mild rubbing to tail of spine and trivial soiling specks to page edges. With dark red-burgundy endpapers, beautifully decorated stamped illustrations and title on cover boards. Appears unread, pages are bright, clean and binding tight. True First Edition with full number line published on October 1, 2005, 2 days before the U.K. Scholastic / The Chicken House, New York, 2005. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. This book is the First American Edition, which proceeded the First Uk Edition. This book is signed by the author, Cornelia Funke on the title-page. The contents are bright and clean, with vignette illustrations. The covers show a bit of very light edge-wear. This book is hard-bound in color, pictorially printed, paper covered boards, in a very nice dust jacket.
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