Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text

Overview:

  • Title: Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text
  • Author: Neil Gaiman
  • Year: 2010
  • ISBN-10: 9780061964947
  • Publisher: William Morrow / HarperCollins
  • Price: $200.00
  • Pages: ix+309
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Neverwhere
  • Notes:
    • Limited edition of the revised version. Issued without dustjacket in a cloth-covered slipcase with a cutout revealing the gold-stamped illustration impressed on the front of the cloth-covered book.
    • Limitation page on the first page after the front endpapers with the statement: "Neverwhere (over) The Author's Preferred Text" followed by "This Edition Is Limited to (over) 1,000 Signed and Numbered Copies" followed by a printed line upon which the number of this copy is hand printed beneath which is the author's signature. The author's name is printed at the bottom of the page.
    • Title page: "Neverwhere (over) The Author's Preferred Text"
    • No statement of edition on the copyright page, but there is a complete number line: "10 11 12 13 14 OV/LEO 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
    • No stated date of publication other than the year of the printing line. Date for this record taken from Amazon.com. Verified copy received 2010-03-27.
    • The copyright page contains the statement "Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for." followed by the ISBN-13 (978-0-06-196494-7).
    • "Designed by Jamie Lynn Kerner" stated on the copyright page.
    • Endpapers (both front and back) are a map of the London Underground.
    • "The Neverwhere Files" consists of
      1. "Early Concept/Outline [ca. June 1990]"
      2. "Original Series Outline [March 1991]"
      3. "From the First Draft of the Script for Episode One of Neverwhere"
      4. "Letter from Neil to FAN Magazine, Written on the Set of Neverwhere [1996]"
    • Verified copy received in a protective cardboard box, designed for this printing, with a sticker indicating the title, author, "Limited Edition", price (USA $200.00), publisher ([logo] / WILLIAM MORROW / An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers). The sticker contains the barcode, above which is printed the price and the ISBN-13.