THE 7th FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE by Laurent Binet. Translated from French to English by Sam Taylor. London: Harvill Secker, (2017). First edition in English, first printing. "First published by Harvill Secker in 2017" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page. SIGNED by the Prix Goncourt du Premiere Roman Award winning French author, political writer, and Rock musician to a special tipped-in coated-stock red signature page that mimics the end-paper design. This detective thriller novel with an intelligent twisting plot, is a fictionalized story of the literary theorist, Roland Gerard Barthes death. Fine, square, very tight and unread in matte-laminated boards with red striped 7th design and titles to the covers and spine, page fore-edges stenciled with a red stylized 7, red striped design end-papers that show a tiny dot of binding glue to the front inner hinge's lower shelf-edge, red and metallic-silver headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed 16.99 price still intact to the front inner flap; with a Topping Booksellers Signed authenticity wraparound band. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED MYSTERY BOOKS THANKS!