In the original dustsheet. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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FIRST EDITION – SUPERB

This gorgeous collection of bizarre books through the ages… My favourite – and the jaw-dropping bar is high here – is the beautiful, tubercular, 19th-century countess who asked an author to bind his next novel in her skin (he obliged, who wouldn’t?). Quite simply the best gift for any book lover this year, perhaps ever.’ — Lucy Atkins ― Sunday Times, Literary Book of the Year