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The Ballantine Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998. Tenth (10th) Printing (number line consisting of 10) of the 25th Anniversary Edition (a special edition). The novel was originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1973. As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, quite tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is brown quarter cloth to beige boards, colors uniform throughout, with bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, unmarked map endpapers showing Guilder and Florin and the sea between them, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - uniformly bright and fully intact with the original price ($24.95) intact on the front flap. See the photos. xiv, [i], 399,[i] pages. 5 7/8" x 8 5/8". This special edition "includes a new Introduction by William Goldman, and the first chapter of Buttercup's Baby, the long lost sequel to The Princess Bride!" (from the dust jacket). The first edition of this wonderful novel failed to sell, and only after the movie came out, did the written work get its recognition with reprints. A fantasy romance novel, it combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, drama, romance, and fairy tale. It is metafictionally presented as an abridgment of a longer work by the fictional S. Morgenstern, and Goldman's "commentary" asides are constant throughout. Literary devices include a fictional frame story about how Goldman came to know about and decided to adapt S. Morgenstern's book. ISBN 10: 034543014X / ISBN 13: 9780345430144.
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