Ready Player One

New York: Crown, (2011). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 374 pp. Original charcoal paper-covered boards, stamped in white, in original unclipped ($24.00) dust-jacket. Almost as-new. Faint edge wear with wrinkling to spine ends and edges, rubbing to gloss. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear to edges, smudges to panels. Light curling to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. Very small, stray pen mark on front free end paper. Signed by the author in blue pen on the title page.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune. Cline sold the rights to publish the novel in June 2010, in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House).The book was published on August 16, 2011. An audiobook was released the same day; it was narrated by Wil Wheaton, who was mentioned briefly in one of the chapters. In 2012, the book received an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association division of the American Library Association and won the 2011 Prometheus Award. A film adaptation, screenwritten by Cline and Zak Penn and directed by Steven Spielberg, was released on March 29, 2018. A sequel novel, Ready Player Two, was released on November 24, 2020, to a widely negative critical reception.”