The Gum Thief / Glove Pond

Limited first edition. Complete in 2 vols. 8vos., 275pp. + 89pp., frontis., b/w pls., note about the author. Black cloth, stamped in silver to spine. Signed by Author in felt-tip pen on a bound-in pink sheet. Cased together with a clothbound copy of Glove Pond by Roger Thorpe, the protagonist of The Gum Thief, bearing a mocked up publisher's logo to base of spine, a pull-quote by Coupland to the front dustwrapper panel, and a mock-bio of the fictional author to rear inner flap of jacket. Housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase, priced at £26 to rear, and still wrapped in original shrinkwrap, as issued.

A Globe and Mail Best Book, and a New York Times Editor's pick. An epistolary novel of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office-supply superstore. By the author of Generation X (1991) and Girlfriend in a Coma (1998). "Classic Coupland." –Independent