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First UK edition with a single #1 as the number sequence. Very minor damage to the laminate at the top of the dustjacket spine. Price still on the dustjacket. “In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent’s-head clasp taste blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it’s alive. Words beging to appear on the page – words no one but the boy can see.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH