Inkheart

FUNKE, Cornelia. Inkheart. Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. NY: Scholastic [2003]. 8vo, [viii] 536pp. Color pictorial boards. Brown endpapers; small b&w illustrations at the end of each chapter. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author & illustrator, Cornelia Funke. First U.S. edition, published the same year as the German edition titled Tintenherz. The first novel in Funke’s Inkworld Trilogy, and the basis for the 2008 feature film starring Brendan Fraser and Helen Mirren. Young Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father Mo, a bookbinder, until that one cruel night when Mo reads aloud from Inkheart, and an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Funke’s second best-seller, after the success of The Thief Lord the year before.