THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. Illustrated Edition.

First illustrated edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Original pictorial cloth. Without dustwrapper, as issued. Housed in the pictorial slipcase. Map endpapers. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates by Mark Rusher. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 1000 copies, this example is numbered 353 and is signed by Carlos Ruiz Zafón in gold ink on the limitation page. A beautiful edition of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's bestselling mystery about the events that unfold after a boy finds the only remaining copy of a banned book by an obscure and untraceable author. First published in Spanish by Planeta in 2001. It was followed by the prequel 'The Angel's Game' in 2008 and the sequels 'The Prisoner of Heaven' and 'The Labyrinth of Spirits' in 2011 and 2016, forming the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books' series.