THE BOOK OF DUST - VOLUME THREE: THE ROSE FIELD (First edition - first impression - special edition with extra illustration)

First impression of the true first edition, with the complete number-string sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This is the special edition, with an additional Chris Wormell illustration, and yellow sprayed edges to the page block. ***A very good copy in dark-grey paper-covered boards, with metallic-red titles to the spine and decorated with metallic-red stardust decorations to the boards, and an extract from the book on the front board. The boards are clean and unmarked, but there is some creasing to the lower part of the spine where the thin paper covering has been compressed, and a light vertical reading crease to the spine (please see scans). Corners sharp. Slight reading lean to the binding with the page block slightly pushed away from the spine. Page block edges sprayed yellow by the publisher - clean without foxing. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. No creases or tears. Paper stock clean. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £25.00. The dustwrapper has no significant faults - bright and clean with no fading. Just some light creasing to the lower edge of the spine. ***622 pages plus a single page of acknowledgements at the back of the book. 240mm x 160mm. ***'Tell me what's in the red building / in the desert of Karamakan. / The building the roses come from. / ---an opening into another world--- / The world where the roses come from? / ---they could come from nowhere else--- (Quote taken from the front board). ***'Lyra Silvertongue is far from her Oxford home, searchinf for her daemon, Pantalaimon, and the imagination he fears she has lost. Malcolm Polstead, the loyal unlikely hero of Lyra's past, has also journeyed across the world, in search of her.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition. A very good copy of the third volume in the Book of Dust trilogy - the special edition with extra illustration. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.