Something Rotten - **Signed** + Postcard - 1st/1st de Fforde Jasper - 2004

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed Without Inscription. First Edition/First Printing. The 4th Thursday Next novel, this is the large uniform library edition, complete with a limited edition collectors postcard, signed 'Jasper' to the title page. Literary Detective Thursday Next is on a mission. And it's not just a mission to save the planet. It's a lot more complicated than that. First, she has to get her job back following the infamous illegal cheese-smuggling incident. Then there is the small matter of persuading Hamlet to attend his conflict resolution classes, and making sure that President-for-life George Formby doesn't lose his seat to a self-declared Dictator, the decidedly fictional Yorric Kaine. Not to mention trying to force the evil Goliath Corporation to un-eradicate her husband, Landen Parke-Laine. Will Thursday ever see Landen again? Is shopping the new religion? Who is cloning Shakespeare? Can she prevent Armageddon? And who will babysit her son while she does it?.