THE OFFING By Benjamin Myers London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2019). First edition thus, first printing. "First published in Great Britain, 2019" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page. SIGNED by the fellow of Royal Society of Literature and Portico Prize, Northern Writers Award, Walter Scott Award, and Goldsmith's Prize winning author to the title page. This novel, set in post WWII, that features a coal miner's son who wanders off to find a life-changing summer in Robin Hood's "smugglers" Bay, was featured on the air for the BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime show, was a Radio 2 Book Club Choice, and was recently announced to be adapted to a Jessica Hobbs directed film starring Helena Bonham. Fine, square, tight and unread in green linen boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, woven gold-silk headband and tail-band, color illustrated end-papers by Greg Heinimann; in a fine dust jacket with lovely sea wraparound art by Greg Heinimann; original printed 16.99 price still intact to the front inner flap; BBC Radio 2 Book Club sticker still intact to the front panel; Independent U.K. bookstore's printed certificate of authenticity band loosely wrapped around the dust jacket. Octavo; 260 pages; plus Note on the Author and Note on the Type pages to the rear. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.