BLACK LEOPARD RED WOLF Text and illustrated maps by Marlon James. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. First edition, first printing. First printing number code sequence 10 through 1 to the copyright page, 2019 date to the title page, $30.00 to the jacket's flap. SIGNED in silver by the Man Booker Prize winning author to the title page, and, SIGNED in silver to a 2019 author-photo event card, which is laid in. This first novel in the African folk-lore rich fantasy Dark Star Trilogy featuring a shape-shifting human animal, won the Ray Bradbury LA Times Award, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was named Best Book Of The Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Time, Wall Street Journal, and Vogue. A presentable first edition, first printing Double-SIGNED collectible. Minutely crimped to the upper and lower spine edges, else a near fine copy, square, tight and firm in purple over rose boards with metallic-blue embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, black headband and tail-band, black end-papers; in a fine crisp dust jacket with wraparound art by Pablo Gerardo Camacho; original printed $30.00 price and code 1902 still intact to the front inner flap. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS THANKS!