THE BOOK OF JONAS by Stephen Dau (New York): Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc./Powell's Books, (2012). First edition, first printing; Powell's Limited Signed Indiespensible issue. First printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page, $24.95 and date code 1203 to the jacket's flap. SIGNED to the title page by the American-Belgium short story author. Powell's Bookshop deluxe Indiespensible production #32 issued SIGNED, with a slipcase, and an author photo-illustrated 23 page companion booklet. This debut novel was a finalist for the First Novelist Award and named Best Book Of The Year by Wall Street Journal, Kirkus, and Booklist. A novel featuring a teen through his young adulthood, who was adopted in the U.S. after a European war incident killed his family, and featuring a U.S. long-mourning mother whose soldier son was killed in that same battle. Fine, square, firm and tight in textured red-russet over blue-threaded golden-sand boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, russet headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $24.95 price still intact to the front inner flap; housed in a black linen slipcase with cream-yellow embossed titles to the front and spine panels; together with a fine companion booklet. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!