Shade's Children. Garth Nix. signed hardback

UK 1^st edition 1^st print hardback.

Published by Harper Collins in 2004.

The book is fine, new and unread  with no corner or edge damage.

The wrap is fine.

Signed on the title page with NO dedication or inscription.

In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill.

The mysterious Shade – once a man, but now more like the machines he fights – recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power – and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become

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Bubblewrapped and boxed