Dark Matter

By Blake Crouch

First UK edition, first impression: Macmillan 2016. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the author on the limitation leaf, this copy no. 481.

Original red cloth boards, lettered in black to the spine with the publisher's device; black sprayed page edges, red endpapers and pastedowns, and a matching ribbon marker. Dust jacket printed in black on a bright red ground, the panels crossed by a dense field of vertical rules, the title in bold, distressed lettering, with review quotations to the front panel from Lee Child, Andy Weir, Harlan Coben and Justin Cronin.

Fine: the cloth bright and unmarked, boards square and firm, spine sharp, sprayed edges even.

Dust jacket fine: the ground bright and unfaded, the black printing crisp, corners and folds sharp.

First published in the United States by Crown in July 2016, this Macmillan edition — issued the following month, on 11 August 2016, in association with Goldsboro Books — constitutes the UK first edition. The novel follows a physicist abducted into an alternate version of his own life, its premise developed from the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. It was adapted as a nine-episode series for Apple TV+, with Crouch as writer and showrunner and Joel Edgerton in the leading role, which premiered in May 2024.