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Product information (Highfield Mole):

  • Hardcover: 344 pages

  • Publisher: Mathew & Son Limited (17 Mar 2005)

  • Language English

  • ISBN-10: 0954839919

  • ISBN-13: 978-0954839918

  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 3 cm

Product information (Highfield Mole):

  • Paperback: 344 pages

  • Publisher: Mathew & Son Limited (17 Mar 2005)

  • Language English

  • ISBN-10: 0954839900

  • ISBN-13: 978-0954839901

  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.4 x 2.8 cm

Product information (Highfield Mole, Colony Edition):

  • Each copy has a hand-drawn picture by Brian Williams bound into it with a facing tissue page.

  • Block gilded pages

  • Black full goat skin leather binding, raised bands, tooling to the spine and gold block design of a Styx on the front cover.

  • Numbered, signed and dated with the publication date.

  • Made by Temple Bookbinders of Oxford

Product information (Tunnels):

  • Paperback: 512 pages

  • Publisher: Chicken House Ltd (3 Jul 2007)

  • Language English

  • ISBN-10: 1905294425

  • ISBN-13: 978-1905294428

  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3 cm

Collectors Notes

  • Printing numbers generally run 5% over to under projections. The exact number of first editions printed for The Highfield Mole was 500 hardbacks and 2000 paperbacks. 80 of the hardbacks were numbered and named The Remarque Series. These are signed, lined and doodled by the authors.

  • Printing numbers generally run 5% over to under projections. The exact number of first editions printed for Tunnels was 20,000 copies.

  • Bartleby T-Shirts - issued in a pre-launch promotion. 100 produced.

  • A set of six postcards in a bespoke wallet

  • A3 Art print of Bartleby

  • A3 Art print of Rebecca

  • A3 Art print of the Crawfly

  • The Colony leather bound edition of the hardback. Limited run of ten.

  • Unnumbered Releases: Highfield Mole Bookmark

Current prices for first printings in fine condition are as follows:

Hardback copies of The Highfield Mole can be had from about £2999 for a special Remarque copy to £1000 for a signed, lined and dated copy, a paperback signed, lined and dated copy from £89.99. Tunnels paperback first printings can be had from £65-£120 depending on if they are signed, lined, dated or doodled.

So, have these moles of the literary world unearthed a winner? If you think they have, you don't need to get your spade out; just read the book and make your own mind up!

 

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