THE GIST

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and translators. Original black imitation leather with red foil titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, not price-clipped ($60 on the rear flap).

Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 33 and signed by Michael Marshall Smith, Benoît Domis and Nicholas Royle on the limitation page. A project in which Smith wrote a short story to be translated into French by Domis, which was then translated back into English by Royle (who had no access to the original text) to see how the story would be affected by multiple translations.