One City : SIGNED Ltd : J K Rowling : Ian Rankin : Irvine Welsh & McCall Smith

One City

By Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh.

Introduction by J. K. Rowling.

Foreword by Rt Hon. Lesley Hinds.

Published by Polygon in support of the OneCity Trust, 2005. Limited Edition. This is number 24 of 150 numbered copies signed by J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Alexander McCall Smith and Irvine Welsh to the half-title page.

Publisher's original orange cloth (with Edinburgh skyline silhouette) in slip-case. Blue patterened endpapers, pp 109, [ii]

CONDITION
A very good copy. The slip case is good. The cloth binding is good with a little loss to the blue dye at the foot of the spine. Endpapers good. Pages clean throughout. Slight leaning to the book due to slight incorrect casing-in by the publisher which is apparently common with this Limited Edition. Overall a very good copy.

A collection initiated by four of Edinburgh's most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. OneCity Trust was established in Edinburgh in 2003 in response to the OneCity report of the Lord Provost's Commission on Social Exclusion. Rowling states in her introduction to this work produced in support of the Trust, "As it happens, I have never lived so long anywhere either as adult or child, as I have lived here. Edinburgh is home now, it is part of me, and I had come to love it long before Harry Potter hit the bookshelves. I am proud to live here, and proud that my home city is committed to becoming a more inclusive place. OneCity seeks to unify: I cannot think of a better goal for Edinburgh, Scotland or the world."

(Loc : Blue Shelves 4, 4 up)