Shades of Grey *Signed 1st UK with card* by Fforde, Jasper - 2010-01-14

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010-01-14. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No dustwrapper as issued. Signed. First UK edition/first printing of the first of Jasper Fforde's new trilogy. What if everything about your life and the society you live in were dictated by which portions of the spectrum you could see? As measured in a foolproof test administered by the most revered authority in your world? This is the central focus of Jasper Fforde’s exceptional new novel, Shades of Grey. In a society several removes from our own and about 600 years into the future, everyone is calmly and politely living out the lives dictated by the Word of Munsell, or almost everyone. The preferred mode is Stasis; the Previous is inexplicable and uninteresting to most of the population. Odd remnants of the world as we know it survive, although in wildly different forms: Friending has become a powerful social force and feedback ratings fuel status and behavior cues; technology LeapBacks and governmental DeFacting are offset by Loopholery and Standard Variables as people endeavor to interpret the Rules; spoons are a precious commodity; and no one can see the Apocryphal Man. We LOVE this book! All of our first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. Dustwrappers are protected with clear archival wraps and we pack each book like it's a Tiffany egg.