JIMGRIM AND THE DEVIL AT LUDD

First edition thus. Signed limited edition. Original black cloth with titles in red foil to the spine and an illustration in red foil to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with four colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout by Mark Wheatley and Frank Cho, as well as a tipped-in print exclusive to the deluxe edition. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original fine dustwrapper which is slightly rubbed at the foot of the spine. Not price-clipped ($65 on the publisher's price label on the front flap).

Deluxe limited edition of which this is numbered 92 of 250 copies and signed by Mark Wheatley and Frank Cho in black ink on the tipped-in limited edition print, as issued. Inscribed by Brian Taves, Talbot Mundy's biographer, in black ink at the head of his introduction "To Malcolm - In memory of five years of / friendship - and with gratitude for all / your Verne & Mundy erudition! / Brian Taves 12/77". A Palestine-set adventure story featuring Talbot Mundy's longest running character Jimgrim, combining the novellas 'The 'Iblis' at Ludd' and 'The Seventeen Theives of El-Kalil' which were first published in 'Adventure' magazine in 1922. Jimgrim's adventures draw heavily on Mundy's own travels in the Middle East in 1920.

Stock code: 24145

£180

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Illustrator:

WHEATLEY, Mark

Category

Children's / Illustrated
Modern First Editions
Adventure / Thriller
Signed / Inscribed
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