Good Omens: Script Book signed by Neil Gaiman first edition 2019

London: Headline, 2019 
 
Large 8vo., white cloth lettered and decorated with borders in gilt to covers and spine; featuring the repeated colour motifs of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley; decorative brown endpapers showing a host of characters; black ribbon marker; pp. [xii], ix-xiii, [iii], 517, [ix], the final few pages showing numerous black and white sketches by the acclaimed portrait artist Lorna May Wadsworth; near-fine, just a couple of dents, bruises, and scratches to boards; all minor, a fine, clean, and virtually unread copy otherwise. 
 
First, Deluxe Edition of the Good Omens script book, Limited to 1000 copies and signed by Gaiman in green ink to the title page. Adapted from the novel co-authored by Terry Pratchett. 
 
Good Omens was published in 1990 and, in 2014, Pratchett asked his good friend and co-author Neil Gaiman to write the scripts for a television adaptation of the book. Pratchett had been diagnosed in 2007 with early-onset Alzheimer’s, and Gaiman relates in his introduction that Pratchett wrote to him thus: “I know, Neil, that you’re very, very busy, but no-one else could do it with the passion that we share for the old girl. I wish I could be more involved…” “He never asked me for anything before”, Gaiman continues, “He told me he wanted me to make it so that he could see it. I agreed. I’d make it so that he could see it. And then, in March 2015, Terry died. I flew home from the funeral and I started writing the first episode. Sixteen months later, in a house on the Isle of Skye, I finished writing the last episode.” 
 
Included in this edition are the scripts which Neil wrote, along with deleted sequences, bonus material, and the aforementioned sketches by Wadsworth depicting the actors and other members of the crew on set.