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 'The Last Devil to Die' was published last week and, according to the assistant in Waterstones, was doing pretty brisk business in early trading, no doubt helped by the half price offer, which I was happy to avail myself of. There was a brief question of whether to go for the half price Waterstones exclusive, or whether to look elsewhere for a signed copy, but a quick check of the collection revealed that books 2 and 3 are both Waterstones exclusives with the sprayed edges, so that sealed the deal. Plus, book 2 is signed, and it looks like Richard has had to sign so many copies (certainly there was talk of him being stuck in a warehouse with many pallets to wade through this time around) that his signature is an illegible squiggle, plus that hardly makes them rare. If I do decide that I need something a bit more genuinely exclusive, I see that Goldsboro have a limited (ish - a run of 2000) number of signed and numbered copies available for £25, albeit take up isn't that urgent as they haven't shifted all of their 2000 copies of book 3 yet.

Entertainingly, I see that I was a little slow on the uptake with book 1. All of my others are firsts, whilst book 1 is a 23rd printing! I noticed that Henry Pordes had a set of all 4 signed in their window at the weekend - didn't ask how much they wanted!


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