Price: £495.00 / €569.25 / $742.50
CATALOG SUSPENDED | GOLD edition, given only to contributors to the book. Only 26 copies of this GOLD lettered edition exist. We have one for sale, lettered 'I'. The most collectable Modesty Blaise book EVER!
Artist: Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero, John M Burns, Neville Colvin, Patrick Wright
Author: Lawrence Blackmore (original works by Peter O'Donnell)
Publisher: Book Palace Books
Publication Date: 30 March 2006
Pages: 436 pages
Size: 10" x 12" (254mm x 297mm)
Format: Hard Cover
Illustrations: Part Colour
ISBN: 095515961X & 9780955159619
This is the GOLD edition which was never sold to the public and was only given to contributors to the book.
Many years in the making, everything you could possibly want to know about Peter O'Donnell's classic creation, Modesty Blaise, from novels to newspaper strips, with full story outlines, over 2,000 character descriptions, over 1800 illustrations by Jim Holdaway, Enric Romero, John M Burns, Neville Colvin and Patrick Wright, plus the original Souvenir Press book covers. Includes 'In the Beginning' origin story, the first ever newspaper strip story by Jim Holdaway, never before printed in the UK.
With the book comes a fabulous CD Rom containing “The Modesty Blaise Companion Companion” with comprehensive information for each strip story including artist, strip numbering, frame analysis, original Evening Standard publication dates, cast lists (over 2200 entries), location settings (over 1500 entries), plus much more.
Only 426 copies were printed (400 numbered & 26 lettered), split between two editions: the SUPER DELUXE LIMITED edition of 100 NUMBERED copies (plus 26 Lettered copies), and the DELUXE LIMITED edition of 300 NUMBERED copies. An essential book for all Modesty Blaise admirers, sure to be a collectors treasure in years to come.
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Two pages from the book! |
