Lost in a Good Book

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 372, [3 (ads)]. Mustard-coloured cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Jacket illustration by Larry Rostant (priced £17.99 to front flap). Frontispiece illustration by Maggie Roberts. Three tongue-in-cheek ads to rear of the book. 1/4,500 copies printed.

Signed in all caps by the author (according to Fforde, only about 600 copies were signed thus, before he adopted his smoother, cursive signature).

Winner of the 2004 Mystery Writers' Dilys Award. The author's second novel featuring Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection. "[P]art Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew and part Dirty Harry". –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times