CORALINE

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author, with an original drawing. Publisher's original pictorial boards, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm. The contents, with a little toning of the pages and light spotting to the closed text-block edge are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine and to a strip at the left and top edges of the front panel. Not price-clipped (£9.99 to the front flap).

Inscribed by Neil Gaiman in purple ink on the title page "Mark - / Neil Gaiman [underlined]" alongside a doodle of a mouse. Gaiman's acclaimed children's dark fantasy novel won a Hugo Award for Best Novella, a Nebula Award for Best Novel, and a Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. It was adapted into an animated film of the same name in 2009.