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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Signed first edition of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ¹

Susanna Clarke; illustrated by Portia Rosenberg

First edition. Thick 8vo. Pp. [x], 782, [8]. Black cloth boards, blocked and lettered in blind to spine; white endpapers. All edges stained black. Frontis., and full-page b/w illus. by Portia Rosenberg. Sewn-in white silk ribbon. Black dustjacket printed in white in a design by William Webb. Issued simultaneously in cream boards with a cream dustjacket (no priority established).
An immaculate copy.
Author's first novel. Ten years in gestation, an occult fantasy set in an alternate England during the Napoleonic Wars, where two practicing magicians align forces in the war against Bonaparte. Time magazine's #1 book of the year. Winner of the 2005 Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award for best first novel. Shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award. Longlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize. Basis for the seven-part BBC One mini-series, broadcast in May and June 2015. "[U]nquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last 70 years." –Neil Gaiman
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
published in
London
publication year
2004
ISBN
0747570558
genre
fantasy
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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ref.98R YQ7