Notes: • "Signed First Edition" on title page • "This edition is strictly limited to a press run of 900 individually numbered copies" from laid-in Certificate of Authenticity • The CoA is signed and dated March 6, 2008, thus April likely first availability • Also laid in is "a note about The Philosopher's Apprentice and the author" • No price or ISBN • "Frontispiece by Eric Deschamps" on title page; artwork is not signed