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The Well of Lost Plots

Signed first edition of Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots ²

Jasper Fforde

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xiv], 360, [8]. Red cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Frontispiece illustration, acknowledgements, contents page, credits, plus four tongue-in-cheek ads to rear of the book. Jacket illustration by Larry Rostant (priced £18.99 to front flap).
Signed by the author to title page in a lower case signature, with his 'Grammasite Zero-Tolerance Area' stamp. With promotional postcard, "Attempt on Land Speed Record," laid in. Faint toning to textblock, else Fine.
Winner of the 2004 Wodehouse prize for comic fiction (which comes complete with a live pig), for its "happy marriage of delightful intelligence and complete lunacy". The third installment in the series featuring literary sleuth Thursday Next, where once again she finds herself tangling with the literal conceits of prose, plot devices and the western literary canon.
"What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition of low comedy and high erudition – this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. The Eyre Affair is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce." Independent
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
published in
London
publication year
2003
ISBN
0340825960
genre
metafiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
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