Books

First UK edition, first impression, signed by the author on the half-title. Stardust was awarded the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 1999 and was adapted for the 2007 film directed by Matthew Vaughn. First published in book form in America earlier the same year, Stardust began life as a comic miniseries illustrated by Charles Vess in 1998. Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, black silk bookmarker. With dust jacket. Decorative chapter titles. Slight bump at joint of front cover; a few marks to unclipped jacket, nick at creased foot of spine panel: a near-fine copy in like jacket. .

Stardust is a fantasy novel that tells the story of a young man named Tristan Thorn, who ventures into the magical land of Faerie to retrieve a fallen star for his beloved only to discover that the star is actually a living girl.