Gaiman, Neil (2023) ‘Coraline’, UK signed limited edition, published by Lyra’s Books

Neil Gaiman (2023) ‘Coraline‘, UK limited edition, published by Lyra’s Books. One of only 200 numbered copies of which this is no. 23. Signed by Neil Gaiman and the artist Rovina Cai. Housed in a beautiful slipcase.

Condition: fine as published

Production details according to the publisher:

• Limited to 200 copies.
• Trimmed page size – 240 x 170mm
• Signed by Neil Gaiman (author) and Rovina Cai (artist)
• Printed letterpress on 148gsm Mohawk Superfine paper by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington of Hand and Eye Letterpress. Black ink throughout with red on many of the other pages.
• 16 colour plates, including frontispiece. With over 25 black and red letterpress silhouettes.
• The Numbered edition is fully bound in black Morocco goatskin leather with a foil blocked ‘red thread’ design spanning the entirety of the cover. The title is foil blocked in gold on the spine.
• Silk ribbon marker.
• Silhouette endpapers.
• The book comes in a cloth capped slipcase with a wrap of marbled paper by Freya Scott of Paperwilds. The inside is lined with black suedel. The outside of the slipcase is blocked with two passes of black and red foil, depicting one of Rovina Cai’s silhouettes.

Coraline won the 2003 Hugo Award for best novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for best novel, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers.