ANANSI BOYS

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Daniel Egnéus illustrated dustwrapper. Blue satin bookmark. Illustrated endpapers and 14 black and white double-page illustrations by Daniel Egnéus. Three pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, lightly rubbed to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block has a couple of light spots to the top edge and a very small mark to the bottom edge. Complete with the near fine, rubbed original dustwrapper, which has a touch of bleed from the cloth to the underside of the flaps and folds, and a small publisher's barcode label pasted to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (£20.00 to the lower front flap).

A contemporary fantasy novel which takes inspiration from West African mythology and revisits a character first introduced in Gaiman's 2001 novel 'American Gods'. Winner of both the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Society Award in 2006.