J. M. Miro [Steven Price] — Ordinary Monsters

London, Bloomsbury, 2022. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition, first impression copy of this fantasy novel from Canadian writer Steven Price, signed by the author. First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author. One of two thousand numbered copies, of which this is number one thousand and eighty-nine. With the original branded bookmark. The first volume of The Talents Trilogy, with the second volume Bringer of Dust released in 2024, and the third to be confirmed. Set in the Victorian era, this novel follows a group of children with special abilities, known as Talents, who are being hunted. The employees of a special academy called the Cairndale Institute are determined to find them, and a monster is searching for the children as well. Written by Steven Price, a Canadian poet and novelist, under the pen name J. M. Miro. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.