THE ABOMINABLE SHOWMAN

First edition in book form, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original white cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Dez Skinn designed dustwrapper. With an illustrated title page and 24 black and white illustrations by Robert Rankin throughout, and a publisher's advertisement to the rear. A publisher's commemorative postcard is loosely laid in. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that has a tiny mark to the front flap, and is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£19.95 to the lower front flap).

Issued in an edition of 1000 copies, from which this example is numbered 922, and signed by Robert Rankin in black ink on the limitation page. First released in 2015 in e-book format for Amazon Kindle, the novel is published here in hardcover format for the first time by the author's own publishing company, named for his self-invented literary genre 'Far-fetched Fiction'. In typical Rankin style, the book's title parodies a classic work of fantasy or science fiction, here spoofing the 1957 Val Guest-directed fantasy-horror film 'The Abominable Snowman', starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing. A comedic space-adventure novel starring one of Rankin's most recognisable characters, Barry 'The Time Sprout'.