Eragon by Paolini, Christopher - 2002

Livingston, Montana: Paolini International, LLC, 2002. First edition, first printing. Very good. Wraps. 8vo. The rare privately-published first printing of author's first book, and the first in the Inheritance Cycle, later issued by Knopf in a hardbound trade edition. Wraps. A few bottom corners lightly bent, including the upper cover, and trace of soil on the edges else a near fine copy. Inscribed by the author on the half title: To David, Christopher Paolini. Housed in a custom velvet-lined slipcase of deep blue cloth and with the author's rendition of Sapphira's eye from the book's cover replicated on the sides Basis for the 2006 movie, which was nominated for a Saturn Award.