Coraline by Neil Gaiman [RARE U.K. FIRST EDITION] 2002 • Bloomsbury

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

U.K. FIRST EDITION [2002] BLOOMSBURY 

2nd Printing of this incredibly rare U.K. First Edition aka the "Adult Edition." released only weeks after the U.S. first edition.  Non-illustrated.

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.  

Dust jacket is in beautiful shape; housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

*Book has some mild foxing down length of text block; visible on endpapers and far edges of first 5 pages [see photos]  Otherwise, very good with clean, tight pictorial boards.

There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventures through that door, she may never come back.