The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón. London: The Folio Society, 2023. Limited, leather-bound edition, featuring limitation tip signed by the illustrator Jorge González; number 3 out of 500.

Translated and with a preface by Lucia Graves, illustrated by Jorge González. 256 × 181 × 45 mm. Pp. [i–vi] vii–xii [xiii–xiv], [1–2] 3–475 [476–482]: [14] leaves of colour plates (between pp. [2]–3, 82–83, 178–179, 274–275, 338–339, 418–419 and 450–451). Type: Sabon. Printed by Memminger MedienCentrum. Bound by Josef Spinner in full dark red-brown leather blocked in gold with title design. Gilded top edge; dark red endleaves. Red ribbon marker. Printed cloth slip case with printed paper lining. The tipped-in limitation statement reads in part ‘limited to 500 numbered copies and 20 lettered copies hors de commerce’. González has added his signature below each copy number. In addition to the slip case and plates, which are all double-page spreads, González has provided a black and white title-page spread and an illustration for a loosely inserted print contained in a protective dark red paper wallet.

As new. Fine book in like slipcase, together with a fine print contained in a presentation folder. Will come wrapped in the original box, as issued (although double boxed for additional safety).

A beautiful illustrated edition of Zafon's first novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series; the tale of a boy in postwar Barcelona who discovers a forgotten book and is drawn into a literary mystery that spans generations. Translated into over 40 languages and an international phenomenon in its own right, The Shadow of the Wind helped establish Ruíz Zafón as one of the most widely read Spanish authors of the 21st century.