I've been busy ordering books this week. Mainly because I stumbled on cold tonnage who "specialise in new and out-of-print, collectible science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural first editions: hardcovers, vintage paperbacks, pulps, magazines and much more." So, shortly to be added to my collection are a first edition of Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's "Arkham Asylum", a first edition of Rob Grant's "Colony", and the best of the lot so far: one of the 1700 trade copies of Neil Gaiman's limited edition (2000 copies) "Adventures in the Dream Trade", which has been signed by the author. Where this all started was me wanting to get a hold of a first printing of Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell". I now have one on order from coldtonnage but, thanks to Ajay for spotting this, I also have one of the 250 beautiful special editions, numbered and signed by the author available from Bloomsbury.com. When I contacted them to see what was special about it this is how they replied:

"The special edition will be in a black slip case, black dust jacket and have black page ends. The special edition you have order will be a first edition, first print run. Bloomsbury USA are planning to publish slightly earlier than we are, however, they have no plans as of yet to release a special signed, numbered edition"