THE BOOK WITH NO WORDS

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black cloth with silver 'Brentford Trilogy' emblem to the upper board. Housed in the black paper-covered slipcase. A graphic novel, illustrated throughout in black and white. Unpaginated. 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. Housed in the lightly rubbed and marked, structurally sound slipcase. Scarce.

Issued in an edition of 1000 copies, from which this example is numbered 725, and signed by Robert Rankin in black ink on the limitation page. An uncommon volume from Rankin's extensive bibliography, that notably includes the comedic fantasy 'Brentford Trilogy' series. Printed on 200GSM fine art paper and released after three years in production to commemorate 40 years of Robert Rankin in print, this fully illustrated 'book with no words' is described in the author's Goodreads entry as "Part autobiography, part Eddie Bear adventure, its likes will never be with us again". Rankin's popular Eddie Bear character previously appeared in such novels as 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse' (2002), 'The Toyminator' (2006), and the omnibus 'Eddie Bear, Private Detective' (2006).