Signed and remarqued by the artist Chris Malbon. First edition, first printing - new and unread. Elusive in the first printing AND in the special limited SIGNED edition. Fine, crisp, and fresh in Chris Riddell color illustrated boards, red-and-white headband and tail-band, illustrated end-papers no dust jacket as issued original printed $19.99 price still intact to the rear cover. Generously illustrated on margins, half-pages, full-pages, and on one double-page spread by Chris Riddell. in 2016, this special, illustrated, preferred author's edition, expands and revises the text, adds an extra introduction, a Gaiman interview, a 400 years prior prologue, and a Neverwhere short story: 'How The Marquis Got His Coat Back'. Laid in is a Bookseller's printed Certificate of Authenticity card with a special printed 'Neverwhere 5410' holograph sticker. edition" "ISBN 9780062839879 (B&N Signed edition)", first printing number code sequence 1 through 10, and year code sequence 17 through 21 to the copyright page. The specially bound in limitation title page states: "This signed edition of NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman, Illustrated by Chris Riddell, has been specially bound and produced by the publisher. SIGNED by Neil Gaiman to the printed, illustrated, limitation page. First American illustrated edition, first printing Special Signed issue. He has served as President of the Society of Authors and is a notable campaigner for public libraries in the UK.Hardcover. Pullman is also known for the Sally Lockhart series and as an editor of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The Book of Dust, another trilogy with some of the same characters and deepening the exploration of Pullman’s ideas, includes La Belle Sauvage (2017 Folio 2021) and The Secret Commonwealth (2019 Folio 2022). It has been adapted for stage and TV, and the first book was also the basis for a major feature film. The trilogy won the Carnegie Medal and, later, the ‘Carnegie of Carnegies’, as well as the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He began publishing children’s fiction while working as a teacher in Summertown, north Oxford, a job he left after the success of Northern Lights (1995 published as The Golden Compass in the United States), the first book in the trilogy His Dark Materials (Folio edition 2008). As a schoolboy and student he discovered John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the poetry of William Blake, both of which have been significant influences on his own writing. He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with a third-class BA in English in 1968 (Oxford later honoured him with a D.Litt. Sir Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and grew up in Wales, though he also travelled extensively due to his father’s work as a pilot in the Royal Air Force.
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