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Melinda: Available Copies

From a limited first edition of 1,500 copies, of which 1,000 are signed and numbered - #450, signed by Neil Gaiman at the limitation page. Boards near fine with only faint bumping to spine tips. Spine square. Binding sound. No jacket, as issued. Pages bright, text unmarked.

Silver lettered blue boards with pictorial label. Housed in publishers envelope. Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. This is #357. Illustrated by Dagmara Matuszak. A fine copy is slightly worn envelope. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall

First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Gaiman on the limitation page and 400 copies reserved for the author and 100 for the artist. Copy #881. Color and black and white illustrations by Dagmara Matuszak. Front board with gilt lettering and illustrated label. Issued without dustjacket. Includes matching number paper envelope with glossy illustrated color label as issued. Fine condition.

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, this being #856. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the limitation page. Dark gray boards stamped in silver and with color illustration affixed to the front cover. Frontispiece, color and b&w illustrations by Dagmara Matuszak. A fine copy in the original light gray paper envelope with color illustration and matching number. ; Quarto; Signed by Author.

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, this being #855. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the limitation page, which in this copy is not bound in. Dark gray boards stamped in silver and with color illustration affixed to the front cover. Frontispiece, color and b&w illustrations by Dagmara Matuszak. A fine copy in the original light gray paper envelope with color illustration and matching number. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.

Folio, 55pp. Gray boards, title in gilt on front cover with illustrated plate. Solid text block, a fine example. Profusely illustrated by Matuszak, with both black-and-white drawings and specialty color plates. Housed in the publisher's matching numbered envelope. From a limited edition of 1,000 copies, this being number 837. Signed by the author, Neil Gaiman, on the tipped-in limitation page.

One of 1000 numbered limited edition copies signed by Neil Gaiman. Tipped-in color plates throughout by artist Dagmara Matuszak. Housed in a matching numbered envelope with additional color plate to front. According to the press notes accompanying this release, Gaiman wrote the text specifically for Matuzak to illustrate, hoping for a few drawings and perhaps a painting or two, and she responded with forty-eight stunning black and white drawings and eight colour plates that delineate the harsh world Gaiman's seven year old Melinda inhabits. Gaiman's text is spare, stark; not a word is wasted, and those that make it to the page are powerfully evocative. The crows flying above Melinda are scarlet and viridian, "as green and red as jungles." Huge steel domes that "trundle thoughtfully" along "pass like beetles of steel and glass." There are "diesel bees" whose "honey tastes of ancient fog" and "electric spiders" that spin "filaments of platinum." Despite these bits of unnatural beauty, Melinda's world is a rough one. Though there is evidence of other humans, of adults, she is alone in a world of machines, rats and wolves. She seeks company with a fish, and in a dying machine that spins yarns -- fairy tales starring robots instead of humans. Melinda dreams of finding adults, though not adults to keep her company or care for her. Rather, she dreams of adults armed to the teeth, who will march behind her. To fight what or whom we're not told. There is much that is unsaid in Melinda, but what is presented hints at a rich story of hardships survived and future dangers to overcome. While readers get but a glimpse into Melinda's world, there can be no doubt her world is fully realized in Gaiman and Matuzak's imaginations. The latter's artwork alternates between stark black and white illustrations -- dominated by girders, wires and machinery -- and detailed colour plates with muted hues where the living blends eerily with the mechanical. Much of Melinda's world is shrouded in darkness, hidden in the shadows, and the girl herself seems gritty and hardened, even at such a tender age. It would be impossible to discuss Melinda without mentioning the physical book itself. Released by Hill House, this limited edition is an oversized hardcover volume actually designed by Matuzak. Each page is quite literally a work of art, beginning with the embossed front cover with its hand-placed colour plate and continuing inside with red-flecked art-quality paper imported from Germany specially for this book. The page numbers are presented uniquely, as part of a machinery cog design at the top of the pages. Each colour plate is set off by a simple black line frame and what appear to be two mechanical hinges, as if the plate were a literal door into Melinda's world, waiting to be opened. A RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER GAIMAN SPECIAL. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng

Melinda by Neil Gaiman (First Edition) Lettered Edition Signed "L" A sharp tight signed copy. Unread. The Lettered Edition. This copy is lettered "L" of 52 copies. An edition of 1500 copies, 1000 are numbered, 400 reserved for the author, 100 reserved for the artist. 8 color illustration plates tipped-in. numerous illustrations in black. Grey boards, decorative silver lettering and mounted illustration plate to the cover. Original black envelope with mounted color illustration.

Edition limited to 52 lettered copies. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the limitation page. Dark gray boards with color illustration affixed to the front cover. Frontispiece, color and b&w illustrations by Dagmara Matuszak. The paper stock used for this edition appears to be of a slightly different color from the stock used for the numbered edition. A fine copy in the original black paper envelope with color illustration and matching letters. ; Quarto; Signed by Author.