Author: Neil Gaiman (Signed Limited Edition). The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains. Limited Edition Signed By Author and Illustrator and Published By Headline London in 2015…….. Condition and Status of The Book and Box. This is a First Limited Edition and is the Rare Specially numbered edition with this copy being number 230 of 250 numbered copies Signed by the Author Neil Gaiman and also the Artist Eddie Campbell on the Limitations Page at the front of the book. Included is a CD of Gaiman reading the text and it’s housed in small pocket to the front pastedown. The book comes fitted into a clamshell printed black cloth box with silver silk ribbon and it still has it’s original cardboard box with Publication details. Superb copy for the collector of this novel which is a story about a humble man who enlists the aid of another, Calum MacInnes, to escort him to a cave on the Misty Isle. The one who finds this cave can leave with as much gold as they can carry, though there is a cost to finding this gold. Nevertheless, the narrator wishes to find the cave and is willing to pay Calum MacInnes to lead him there. And so the two men trek across the Scottish wilderness in search of the Misty Isle. It’s a kind of homage to Otto F Swire who wrote books on the legends and history of the Inner and Outer Hebrides, 4to Limited Edition 230/250 Copies and Signed By both Author and Artist [2015].
