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INKHEART
by Cornelia Funke
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[CORNELIA FUNKE]. SIGNED & INSCRIBED. INKHEART. Scholastic / Chicken House, New York, 2003. First U.S. Edition, First printing. True First Edition released 5 days before U.K. Edition. Full number line with "First American edition, October 2003" stated and '03' for 2003 in year release number line. Book Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, pages are clean, bright and binding tight with original publisher's black endpapers. Dust jacket is in gilt type, beautifully gilt decorated on cover, spine and corners with unclipped original price of $19.95 on inner flap. Micro-chips to extremities and mild rubbing to spine corners of jacket. Signed and inscribed by author Cornelia Funke. Books both signed and inscribed by Funke are rare. Not ex-library, not remainder marked, not a autopen and not a facsimile autograph. Neat owner's inscription to first endpaper. The motion picture based on the novel and with the same name was released in 2008 starring Brendan Fraser. Cover art by Carol Lawson & Ian Butterworth. Classic fantasy and scarce signed collectible. 544pgs. 8vo.
Synopsis
Inkheart is a young adult-child fantasy novel by Cornelia Funke, and the first book of the Inkworld trilogy. The book is about a 12-year-old girl named Meggie Folchart whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that her father, a bookbinder named Mortimer (Mo), has an unusual ability: when he reads aloud, he can bring characters from books into the real world.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-216
- Title
- INKHEART
- Author
- Cornelia Funke
- Illustrator
- Carol Lawson & Ian Butterworth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scholastic / Chicken House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cornelia Funke, Carol Lawson & Ian Butterworth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fantasy; Children's and YA (Young Adult);
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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