Your search returned 20 results.
Fforde Jasper Something Rotten - **Signed** - Both Editions + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 340 82597 9 Signed Without Inscription Copies of both the large Uniform Library edition and the small Mass Market edition, both signed, both first editon first printing copies, complete with a limited edition collectors postcard. Literary Detective Thursday Next is on a mission. And it's not just a mission to save the planet. It's a lot more complicated than that. First, she has to get her job back following the infamous illegal cheese-smuggling incident. Then there is the small matter of persuading Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes, and making sure that President-for-life George Formby doesn't lose his seat to a self-declared Dictator, the decidedly fictional Yorric Kaine. Not to mention trying to force the evil Goliath Corporation to un-eradicate her husband, Landen Parke-Laine. Will Thursday ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Who is cloning Shakespeare? Can she prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it? (Book ref. 001411) £55.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Something Rotten - **Signed** + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 340 82597 9 Signed Without Inscription The 4th Thursday Next novel, this is the large uniform library edition, complete with a limited edition collectors postcard. Literary Detective Thursday Next is on a mission. And it's not just a mission to save the planet. It's a lot more complicated than that. First, she has to get her job back following the infamous illegal cheese-smuggling incident. Then there is the small matter of persuading Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes, and making sure that President-for-life George Formby doesn't lose his seat to a self-declared Dictator, the decidedly fictional Yorric Kaine. Not to mention trying to force the evil Goliath Corporation to un-eradicate her husband, Landen Parke-Laine. Will Thursday ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Who is cloning Shakespeare? Can she prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it? (Book ref. 001129) £45.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Shades of Grey - **Signed** + Postcard + T-Shirt + Event Slip
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/No Jacket as Issued. Signed Without Inscription An unread copy, signed "Jasper" to the title page, issued without dust jacket, postcard, event slip and t-shirt included. T-shirt is new and still in wrapper, size Large coloured grey with the word Grey written in different coloured letters. It's Britain but not as we know it. Entire cities lie buried beneath moorland. Echoes of lost technology pepper the landscape, and there is evidence of conflict in abundance. Democracy has been replaced by Colourocracy. Visual colour dominates society, from the feed pipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues you view to cure illness, to a social hierarchy based upon your limited colour vision. You are what you see. Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other that a loyal drone of the collective. With his better-than-average red perception he could marry an Oxblood, inherit the Stringworks, maybe even make Prefect. But then he moves to East Carmine and falls in love with a Grey named Jane who opens his eyes to the painful truth behind his seemingly perfect society (Book ref. 002262) £40.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Shades of Grey - **Signed** + Postcard + Event Slip
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/No Jacket as Issued. Signed Without Inscription An unread copy, signed "Jasper" to the title page, issued without dust jacket, postcard and event slip included. It's Britain but not as we know it. Entire cities lie buried beneath moorland. Echoes of lost technology pepper the landscape, and there is evidence of conflict in abundance. Democracy has been replaced by Colourocracy. Visual colour dominates society, from the feed pipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues you view to cure illness, to a social hierarchy based upon your limited colour vision. You are what you see. Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other that a loyal drone of the collective. With his better-than-average red perception he could marry an Oxblood, inherit the Stringworks, maybe even make Prefect. But then he moves to East Carmine and falls in love with a Grey named Jane who opens his eyes to the painful truth behind his seemingly perfect society (Book ref. 002243) £20.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Big Night Out - A Spot of Bother - **Signed**
London: Harper Collins, 2002. First Edition/First Printing. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 0 00 714185 8 Signed Without Inscription Jasper Ffordes first published short story, extremely rare signed, one for the collector - what do you do when you find a mountain gorilla in your garden?. A Big Night Out is a collection of stories and articles by authors and celebrities in aid of War Child. War Child provide education and communication projects for children throughout the world, they give children safe play areas and wind-up, battery free radios, by which they receive educational programmes to continue their schooling wherever they are. (Book ref. 001625) £70.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper First Among Sequels - Both Editions - **Signed** + Postcard + Footnoterphone Update Alert + 10 Shilling Note
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 978 0 340 83574 Signed Without Inscription Unread copies of both the Uniform Library edition and the Mass Market edition, both signed, both first edition first printing copies, also included is a collectors postcard, a Footnoterphone Update Alert and a 10 shilling note with the signature of Jasper Ffordes father, J S Fforde, who was chief cashier to the Bank of England between 1966 and 1970. Fourteen years after she pegged out at 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy Novels. Her idle sixteen-year-old son would rather sleep all day than save the world, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble in Swindon. Then things begin to get bad. As Reality Book Shows look set to transplant Reality TV Shows and Goliath invent a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday must once again have her wits about her as she travels to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to rescue the reading experience from almost certain destruction. (Book ref. 001745) £90.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper First Among Sequels - **Signed** + Postcard + Footnoterphone Update Alert + 10 Shilling Note
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 978 0 340 83574 Signed Without Inscription The 5th Thursday Next adventure, this is the large library edition, also included is a collectors postcard, a Footnoterphone Update Alert and a 10 shilling note with the signature of Jasper Ffordes father, J S Fforde, who was chief cashier to the Bank of England between 1966 and 1970. Fourteen years after she pegged out at 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy Novels. Her idle sixteen-year-old son would rather sleep all day than save the world, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble in Swindon. Then things begin to get bad. As Reality Book Shows look set to transplant Reality TV Shows and Goliath invent a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday must once again have her wits about her as she travels to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to rescue the reading experience from almost certain destruction. (Book ref. 001734) £70.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper First Among Sequels - **Signed** + Postcard + Footnoterphone Update Alert
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 9780 340 835753 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the 5th Thursday Next adventure, this is the small mass market edition. Fourteen years after she pegged out at 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy Novels. Her idle sixteen-year-old son would rather sleep all day than save the world, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble in Swindon. Then things begin to get bad. As Reality Book Shows look set to transplant Reality TV Shows and Goliath invent a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday must once again have her wits about her as she travels to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to rescue the reading experience from almost certain destruction. (Book ref. 001744) £27.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Big Over Easy + The Fourth Bear - **Both Signed**
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83567 2 Signed Without Inscription Unread copies of the first two investigations with the Nursey Crime Division, both books are the smaller edition, both books are signed. (Book ref. 001663) £28.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Fourth Bear - **Signed** + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83571 0 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the smaller edition, including a collectors postcard. A chance encounter in the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads Jack Spratt and Mary Mary onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter with the Daily Toad. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the explosions around the globe related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most importantly of all: how could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? And on top of all that - the Gingerbreadman is on the loose. (Book ref. 001611) £17.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Lost in a Good Book - **Signed** + Postcard
New York: Viking, 2003. First American Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 670 03190 9 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the authors 2nd novel, sequel to 'The Eyre Affair', complete with a highly collectable series postcard . Thursday Next, literary detective and dodo owner, begins married life with the news that her husband drowned 38 years ago, and no one but Thursday can remember him. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. Maybe the Goliath Corporation, who will stop at nothing to get their operative Jack Schitt out of 'The Raven' - the poem in which Thursday trapped him? Or are more sinister forces at work in Swindon? In searching for an answer Thursday helps Miss Havisham close narrative loopholes in Great Expectations, struggles to find a deeper understanding in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and learns the truth about Larry the Lamb. (Book ref. 001563) £25.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Eyre Affair - **Signed** + Postcard + 10 Shilling Note
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Not price Clipped. 0 340 82283 x Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the first Thursday Next book, signed in uppercase, complete with a highly collectable postcard and a 10 shilling note with the signature of Jasper Ffordes father, J S Fforde, who was chief cashier to the Bank of England between 1966 and 1970. Thursday Next is a literary detective on the trail of Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from literature and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre has been plucked from her novel and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage. She also has to find time to halt the ongoing Crimean War, persuade the man she loves to marry her, rescue her aunt from inside a Wordsworth poem and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. Aided by her time-travelling father, Jack Schitt of the Goliath Corporation, a pet Dodo and Edward Rochester himself. (Book ref. 001446) £122.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Big Over Easy - **Signed** - Both Editions + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83567 2 Signed Without Inscription Unread copies of both the Collectors edition and the Mass Market edition complete with collectors postcard, the first investigation with the Nursey Crime Division. Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary suspect murder, a sentiment not shared by their superiors who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. And on top of all that, the Jellyman is coming to town... (Book ref. 001395) £32.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Big Over Easy - **Signed** + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83567 2 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the small format edition complete with collectors postcard, the first investigation with the Nursey Crime Division. Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary suspect murder, a sentiment not shared by their superiors who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. And on top of all that, the Jellyman is coming to town... (Book ref. 001392) £16.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Big Over Easy - **Signed** + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83566 4 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the large collectors edition, the first investigation with the Nursey Crime Division, also included is a collectors postcard. Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary suspect murder, a sentiment not shared by their superiors who are still smarting over their failure to convict the Three Pigs of murdering Mr. Wolff. Before long Jack and Mary find themselves grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, bullion smuggling, problems with beanstalks, titans seeking asylum and the cut and thrust world of international chiropody. And on top of all that, the Jellyman is coming to town... (Book ref. 001391) £20.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Something Rotten - **Signed** + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83558 3 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the 4th Thursday Next novel, this is the small edition, complete with limited edition collectors card. Literary Detective Thursday Next is on a mission. And it's not just a mission to save the planet. It's a lot more complicated than that. First, she has to get her job back following the infamous illegal cheese-smuggling incident. Then there is the small matter of persuading Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes, and making sure that President-for-life George Formby doesn't lose his seat to a self-declared Dictator, the decidedly fictional Yorric Kaine. Not to mention trying to force the evil Goliath Corporation to un-eradicate her husband, Landen Parke-Laine. Will Thursday ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Who is cloning Shakespeare? Can she prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it? (Book ref. 001130) £20.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Something Rotten - **Signed**
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 83558 3 Signed Without Inscription An unread copy of the 4th Thursday Next novel, this is the small edition. Literary Detective Thursday Next is on a mission. And it's not just a mission to save the planet. It's a lot more complicated than that. First, she has to get her job back following the infamous illegal cheese-smuggling incident. Then there is the small matter of persuading Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes, and making sure that President-for-life George Formby doesn't lose his seat to a self-declared Dictator, the decidedly fictional Yorric Kaine. Not to mention trying to force the evil Goliath Corporation to un-eradicate her husband, Landen Parke-Laine. Will Thursday ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Who is cloning Shakespeare? Can she prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it? (Book ref. 001128) £13.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Lost in a Good Book
London: New English Library, 2002. First Edition/First Printing. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 0 340 73357 8 An unread copy of the authors 2nd novel, sequel to 'The Eyre Affair'. Thursday Next, literary detective and dodo owner, begins married life with the news that her husband drowned 38 years ago, and no one but Thursday can remember him. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. Maybe the Goliath Corporation, who will stop at nothing to get their operative Jack Schitt out of 'The Raven' - the poem in which Thursday trapped him? Or are more sinister forces at work in Swindon? In searching for an answer Thursday helps Miss Havisham close narrative loopholes in Great Expectations, struggles to find a deeper understanding in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and learns the truth about Larry the Lamb. (Book ref. 000963) £5.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper Lost in a Good Book - **Signed** + Postcard + 10 Shilling Note
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Mint/Mint. Not price clipped. 0 340 82283 x Signed in Uppercase An unread copy of the authors 2nd novel, sequel to 'The Eyre Affair', signed in uppercase. Also included is a collectors postcard and a 10 shilling note with the signature of Jasper Ffordes father, J S Fforde, who was chief cashier to the Bank of England between 1966 and 1970. Thursday Next, literary detective and dodo owner, begins married life with the news that her husband drowned 38 years ago, and no one but Thursday can remember him. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. Maybe the Goliath Corporation, who will stop at nothing to get their operative Jack Schitt out of 'The Raven' - the poem in which Thursday trapped him? Or are more sinister forces at work in Swindon? In searching for an answer Thursday helps Miss Havisham close narrative loopholes in Great Expectations, struggles to find a deeper understanding in The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies and learns the truth about Larry the Lamb. (Book ref. 000285) £50.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. BooksellersFforde Jasper The Eyre Affair - **Signed** + Postcard
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. First Edition/First Printing. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 0 340 73356 x Light reading creases, signed in uppercase, with competition sticker as called for. Thursday Next is a literary detective on the trail of Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from literature and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre has been plucked from her novel and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage. She also has to find time to halt the ongoing Crimean War, persuade the man she loves to marry her, rescue her aunt from inside a Wordsworth poem and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. Aided by her time-travelling father, Jack Schitt of the Goliath Corporation, a pet Dodo and Edward Rochester himself. (Book ref. 000176) £50.00
Offered for sale by Marks & Co. Booksellers
Your search returned 20 results. top