Art Matters: Because your Imagination Can Change the World by Neil Gaiman - 2018

New York: William Morrow, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. New. Stated First U.S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. The unread small book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. No dust jacket as issued. Price on back panel. A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman illustrated with the striking artwork of Chris Riddell. 5" X 7½" tall.

Art Matters features:

"Credo", his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings

"Make Good Art", his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts

"Making a Chair", a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won't come

"On Libraries", an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers