THE ANGEL'S GAME

First illustrated edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with metallic blue titles to the spine, in the Vincent Chong illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with five full page colour plates by Vincent Chong. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper, which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($125 to the front flap).

Issued in a limited edition of 750 copies of which this example is numbered 359 and signed by the author Carlos Ruiz Zafón in black ink on the limitation page. There was also an edition of 26 lettered copies in a tray case. The second in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Cemetery of Forgotten Books series and a prequel to 'The Shadow of the Wind' (2001), 'The Angel's Game' returns to the 1920s, the eponymous cemetery, and Sempere & Sons bookshop in Barcelona's Raval district. "Readers familiar with 'The Shadow of the Wind' will find themselves back in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, the echo of Eco where, from a labyrinthine library, volumes seem to select their readers." (The Spectator).