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468, [2] pp. 21.6x14 cm. (8½x5¼"), color wrappers. First Edition.

Inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page: "May your swords stay sharp! Christopher Paolini." This is an early inscription and signature, though undated, it is of the type usually done the year of publication. Accompanied by four original ink drawings, one of a frog, the others maps with place names or denizens indicated, each signed by Paolini, dated '03, on sheets 92x62 cm. (36x24¼") or reverse, early examples of his art, not later commercial pieces. The book is the rare, self-published first edition. Before this teenager's book became a best-seller with Knopf and had the film rights acquired by Fox 2000, it was published by the author's family in Livingston, Montana.