Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade [first edition]

Edinburgh: Rebel Inc., 1998. Introduced by Howard Marks. Original glass mirror boards with sliver spine, titles to spine blind stamped. Some very minor light scuffs to the mirror front and back that will not show in photos. With the metal credit card style book mark and the rolled-up $100 bill. Housed in the original printed slipcase. Book designed by Damien Hirst. A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade. This extradordinary edition of the cult classic Snowblind - the 'scammer's bible' about the exploits of legendary cocaine smuggler Zachary Swan - was designed by Damien Hirst in 1998. Only 1000 copies were printed and with unbelievable production values. The boards of the book are made from reinforced mirrors. Inside the book, the title page is numbered and signed by the collaborators - Damien Hirst, Howard Marks and Robert Sabbag - and the book comes with a metal credit card as a bookmark in the style of an American Express card. Inside the book, a special die-cut trench runs through the pages that feature Zachary Swan's most daring import/export manoeuvres, and inside this trench hides - Agatha Christie style - a real $100 bill, rolled up. The final three digits of the note, which were specially secured from the US Treasury, correspond to the number of the edition from the run of one thousand. So, for example, book number 536 has as the last digits of the $100 bill numbers 536 (see photo). The edition comes in a special slip case featuring the same artwork as the endpapers: reproduced dollar bills in various kinds of poses, and all copies are numbered. Signed by Damien Hirst, Robert Sabbag and Howard Marks.