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London: Sphere, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. The first of the crime novels written by the author of the Harry Potter books and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. According to the Errington bibliography of J. K. Rowling (A17.a), the print run was just 1750 copies. Next to the hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, this is the Rowling book with the smallest print run. According to the London Evening Standard (22 July 2013), the publisher ordered 140,000 copies from the printer after Rowling was identified as the author. Even they didn't know the author was Rowling. 449 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket (I'm not sure if the typo on the back flap was fixed in the later printings or not; in any case this jacket has the required error in the last word on the flap reading WIlson, with the first…

A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

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