Hawking | The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, London, 1996, inscribed with the author's witnessed thumb-print

Stephen Hawking

The Illustrated A Brief History of Time. London: Bantam Press, 1996

INSCRIBED WITH THE AUTHOR'S WITNESSED THUMB PRINT on title-page: "To Jonathan Horsfall Turner | With best wishes from | Stephen Hawking | Gonville and Caius College, 15 February 2008", with accompanying stamp: "RIGHT THUMB-PRINT OF S.W. HAWKING WITNESSED BY JUDITH CROASDELL", 4to (251 x 190mm.), in-text colour illustrations, original black cloth boards, spine gilt, dust-jacket, extremities slightly bumped

With the author's thumb-print, witnessed by Hawking's former PA Judith Croasdell.