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INKSPELL
by Cornelia Funke
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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About This Item
[CORNELIA FUNKE]. SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DRAWING. INKSPELL. Scholastic / The Chicken House, New York, 2005. First U.S. Edition, First printing. True First Edition with full number line published on October 1, 2005, 2 days before the U.K. Edition. Book Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, pages are bright, clean and binding tight. With dark red-burgundy endpapers, beautifully decorated stamped illustrations and title on cover boards. Mild shelf wear to edges and mild rubbing to tail of spine and trivial soiling specks to page edges. Overall about fine with the original fine unclipped dust jacket protected in archival mylar collector dust jacket sleeve. Signed, inscribed with extremely rare hand drawing by Cornelia Funke on half-title. This book is the sequel and second book in the Inkheart series. The motion picture was based on the first Inkheart novel and with the same name released in 2008 starring actor Brendan Fraser. The last book from author Cornelia Funke of this trilogy is Inkdeath. Not a BCE (Book Club Edition), not remainder marked, not a reprint, not a facsimile drawing and not a autopen autograph.Cover art and illustrations by Cornelia Funke and Carol Lawson. Classic modern YA fantasy with scarce hand drawing from author, rare signed collectible. [635 pgs + 5 pgs].
Synopsis
Inkspell is a young adult novel by Cornelia Funke. It was named the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Children's Literature category. Inkspell is the second novel in Cornelia Funke's Inkworld trilogy. The first novel, Inkheart, (2003) was critically acclaimed and was made into a major motion picture released in January 2009. The third novel, which was recently renamed Inkdeath was released September 28, 2007 in Germany.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-214
- Title
- INKSPELL
- Author
- Cornelia Funke
- Illustrator
- Cornelia Funke, Carol Lawson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cornelia Funke, Carol Lawson, Inkheart, Movie, YA, Fantasy, Drawing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fantasy; Children's and YA (Young Adult);
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Astro Trader Books
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About Astro Trader Books
Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Tight
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- Facsimile
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- Reprint
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- Inscribed
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- Edges
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