Description
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, with his thumb print on the title page and an annotation by his secretary, Susan Masey.
This printing is the “Updated, Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Edition,” published in London in 1998. Octavo, xi, [3], 241pp. Dark blue cloth, title stamped in silver on spine. No additional printings noted on copyright page. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, 15.00 on front flap, bright illustrations.
Contains the thumb-print of Stephen Hawking on the title page, with the following inscription: “Thumb-print of S.W. Hawking. Witnessed by Susan Masey.”
Books “signed” with the thumb-print of Stephen Hawking are exceptionally rare. The known examples were witnessed by his personal secretaries, Susan Masey or Judith Croasdell, who added an inscription next to the thumb print.
