Artemis Fowl (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
COLFER, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 288 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Viking, 2001.
Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) grew up in Wexford, Ireland, the son of a primary school teacher, and became one himself — teaching in various schools, including a period in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, before Artemis Fowl changed the course of his career. He had published several children's books before it, but the arrival of Artemis Fowl II on the page in 2001 was of a different order entirely. The character — and the novel — became an immediate international phenomenon.
Artemis Fowl II is twelve years old, the scion of a wealthy Irish criminal dynasty, and possessed of an intelligence that is, by any measure, extraordinary. He is also, at the novel's opening, without a father — Artemis Fowl I having disappeared on a business trip to Russia — and in pursuit of a means of restoring the family fortune. The means he identifies is audacious to the point of apparent lunacy: the fairy people, he has discovered, exist. They live in a technologically advanced civilisation beneath the earth's surface, policed by a force called the LEP — the Lower Elements Police — and Artemis intends to kidnap one of their officers and hold her to ransom for a quantity of fairy gold. The officer in question is Holly Short, a captain in LEPrecon whose bad day is about to become considerably worse.
What follows is a novel that operates simultaneously as a heist thriller, a science fiction adventure, and a comedy of clashing intelligences, in which Artemis's cold strategic genius is pitted against a fairy counteroperation involving centaurs, dwarves, and a tactical nuclear device. Colfer's achievement was to make Artemis genuinely morally ambiguous — a villain-protagonist whose intelligence compels admiration and whose ruthlessness compels discomfort — without sacrificing the narrative velocity that made the series one of the most successful children's fantasy sequences of the early twenty-first century. The eight novels were completed in 2012; a film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh was released by Disney in 2020. Colfer also wrote And Another Thing... (2009), the sixth instalment of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequence, a commission that speaks to the esteem in which he is held by the literary world beyond the children's market.
Near fine. Spotting to upper edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
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Catalogue Number: HH000505
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Artemis Fowl (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
Artemis Fowl (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
COLFER, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 288 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Viking, 2001.
Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) grew up in Wexford, Ireland, the son of a primary school teacher, and became one himself — teaching in various schools, including a period in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, before Artemis Fowl changed the course of his career. He had published several children's books before it, but the arrival of Artemis Fowl II on the page in 2001 was of a different order entirely. The character — and the novel — became an immediate international phenomenon.
Artemis Fowl II is twelve years old, the scion of a wealthy Irish criminal dynasty, and possessed of an intelligence that is, by any measure, extraordinary. He is also, at the novel's opening, without a father — Artemis Fowl I having disappeared on a business trip to Russia — and in pursuit of a means of restoring the family fortune. The means he identifies is audacious to the point of apparent lunacy: the fairy people, he has discovered, exist. They live in a technologically advanced civilisation beneath the earth's surface, policed by a force called the LEP — the Lower Elements Police — and Artemis intends to kidnap one of their officers and hold her to ransom for a quantity of fairy gold. The officer in question is Holly Short, a captain in LEPrecon whose bad day is about to become considerably worse.
What follows is a novel that operates simultaneously as a heist thriller, a science fiction adventure, and a comedy of clashing intelligences, in which Artemis's cold strategic genius is pitted against a fairy counteroperation involving centaurs, dwarves, and a tactical nuclear device. Colfer's achievement was to make Artemis genuinely morally ambiguous — a villain-protagonist whose intelligence compels admiration and whose ruthlessness compels discomfort — without sacrificing the narrative velocity that made the series one of the most successful children's fantasy sequences of the early twenty-first century. The eight novels were completed in 2012; a film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh was released by Disney in 2020. Colfer also wrote And Another Thing... (2009), the sixth instalment of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequence, a commission that speaks to the esteem in which he is held by the literary world beyond the children's market.
Near fine. Spotting to upper edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000505
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COLFER, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full black leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 288 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Viking, 2001.
Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) grew up in Wexford, Ireland, the son of a primary school teacher, and became one himself — teaching in various schools, including a period in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, before Artemis Fowl changed the course of his career. He had published several children's books before it, but the arrival of Artemis Fowl II on the page in 2001 was of a different order entirely. The character — and the novel — became an immediate international phenomenon.
Artemis Fowl II is twelve years old, the scion of a wealthy Irish criminal dynasty, and possessed of an intelligence that is, by any measure, extraordinary. He is also, at the novel's opening, without a father — Artemis Fowl I having disappeared on a business trip to Russia — and in pursuit of a means of restoring the family fortune. The means he identifies is audacious to the point of apparent lunacy: the fairy people, he has discovered, exist. They live in a technologically advanced civilisation beneath the earth's surface, policed by a force called the LEP — the Lower Elements Police — and Artemis intends to kidnap one of their officers and hold her to ransom for a quantity of fairy gold. The officer in question is Holly Short, a captain in LEPrecon whose bad day is about to become considerably worse.
What follows is a novel that operates simultaneously as a heist thriller, a science fiction adventure, and a comedy of clashing intelligences, in which Artemis's cold strategic genius is pitted against a fairy counteroperation involving centaurs, dwarves, and a tactical nuclear device. Colfer's achievement was to make Artemis genuinely morally ambiguous — a villain-protagonist whose intelligence compels admiration and whose ruthlessness compels discomfort — without sacrificing the narrative velocity that made the series one of the most successful children's fantasy sequences of the early twenty-first century. The eight novels were completed in 2012; a film adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh was released by Disney in 2020. Colfer also wrote And Another Thing... (2009), the sixth instalment of Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequence, a commission that speaks to the esteem in which he is held by the literary world beyond the children's market.
Near fine. Spotting to upper edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000505
