Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated 'Leila--Sweet dreams from Neil Gaiman, midsummer, 2001' by the author on the half-title page. 1st edition, 3rd printing. Dust jacket has slight edgewear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. Book has softening to the base of the spine and faint shelfwear to the bottoms of the boards. Rare signed. Short works by the Squiddy Award-, World Fantasy Award-, Locus Award-, Eisner Award-, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award-, Bram Stoker Award-, Hugo Award-, Nebula Award-, British Science Fiction Association Award-, British Fantasy Award-, Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award-, Comic-Con Icon Award-, The Booktrust Teenage Prize-, Carnegie Medal-, Shirley Jackson Award-, and Newbery Award-winning author of 'The Graveyard Book' and 'American Gods'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Title: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
Publisher: William Morrow & Company, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0380973642
ISBN 13: 9780380973644
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition.
Printing: 3rd Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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The creator of the popular Sandman series of graphic novels follows his best-selling debut solo novel, Neverwhere, with a collection of fantastic tales, several of them brand-new, of strange inventions, miraculous encounters, and bizarre discoveries. 30,000 first printing.

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Best known for his Sandman graphic novels about Morpheus, Lord of Dreams, Neil Gaiman has also written the standalone books Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Never Where from his BBC TV series revealing a fantastic realm under London, and Star Dust, a poignant fairy tale. His shorter fantasies are regularly picked for Year's Best collections. Smoke and Mirrors assembles 36 of his favourite stories, prose poems, and verse pieces. Among the imaginative inventions here are a murder mystery set among angels in heaven; the discovery of the Holy Grail at Oxfam; warped retellings of fairy tales and folklore, including a Snow White that's black beyond belief; several clever variations on vampirism; a firm of contract killers with a very remarkable discount scheme; homages to Michael Moorcock and H.P. Lovecraft (one splendidly funny) that avoid mere pastiche; an SF world of rapid and reversible sex changes; Beowulf retold as a Baywatch episode; a tasty amalgamation of computers and black magic; a new final book of the Bible; and the grim wedding present that's simply a manuscript telling a bleakly different story of the recipients' unfolding marriage. SF/fantasy professionals themselves envy Gaiman's perpetual flow of new ideas and ability to put a fresh spin on old ones. Smoke and Mirrors is a dazzlingly varied and rewarding collection. --David Langford

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