By Jasper Fforde (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fforde, Jasper., Viking, c2007, book club edition, boards (hard cover), fine with fine dj, 366 pp, B&W illus. by Bill Mudron & Dylan Meconis, 8vo, ISBN: 9780670038718, 'Back in Swindon, the government is reporting a dangerously high stupidity surplus'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. Signed by author on the title page: "Jasper". This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The love of her life has been eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath, and to rescue him Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of -The Raven-. But Poe is off-limits to even the most seasoned literary interloper. Enter a professional; the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations. As Miss H's new apprentice, Thursday keeps her motives secret as she learns the ropes of Jurisfiction, where she moonlights as a Prose Resource Operative inside books." "His published books include a series of novels starring the literary detective Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot. The Eyre Affair had received 76 publisher rejections before its eventual acceptance for publication. Fforde won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2004 for The Well of Lost Plots." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Illustrated by Larry Rostant (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Like new. Minimal shelfwear. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight.