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Antiquities: Seven Stories: Available Copies

First edition: Limited to 1000 copies. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A handsome edition with book and jacket design by John D. Berry. "Here are rarities: seven stories by a writer known best for work in long forms, a writer who hasn't often turned his hand to stories. Here are stories from every period of his career, in an array of genres: here are a little legend from the middle ages, a parody of those beloved Edwardian travellers' tales, an imagined moment from the life of an English poet and a visit from an English novelist. Here are a ghost story about memory, and an SF story, also about memory. And a final fable about how only the brave deserve the fair. The seven stories here collected for the first time are distinct pieces with different ambitions -- some bright gems, some dark -- but read them and discover the subtle lights that link them, the obsessive themes of twenty years in a writer's life: memory, time, loss, and the hope in writing."--publisher's blurb. World Fantasy Award (Best Collection) nominee.

This is the Incunabula hardcover with "FIRST EDITION" and full printing line with "1" on its copyright page. It is elegantly signed, with no personalization or inscription, on its title page by author John Crowley. This book and its dust jacket are in fine condition. The book's binding is sound and square, with no spine crease. Its covers are unmarked and unworn, with bright gilt titles on its spine. Pages are unworn and otherwise unmarked. Not a remainder. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is whole, bright, unmarked, and unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its proud new owner in the same condition as my description.

Octavo, cream wrappers printed in black. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. "Crowley is best known for his novels, which tend to be long and intricately plotted, but he is also capable of creating quality work of shorter lengths. Thus the seven fantasy and science fiction stories collected here perhaps give readers a greater appreciation of the strength of Crowley's imagination, erudition, and literary style while not getting swept up in a complex story . Each story here is a small well-crafted gem, highly allusive yet not obtrusively so, full of emotion -- mostly longing and especially wonder, a response fantasy airs for but rarely achieves with the force Crowley is able to supply." - Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-84. A fine copy. (#157658)

As New in an As New dustjacket. Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt; the front panel in blind. Octavo. 100pps., plus a colophon. A flawless, collector's-quality copy -- still in the publisher's shrinkwrap: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be opened and yet to be read. One of only 1,000 copies of the first edition. ".Here are rarities: seven stories by a writer known best for work in long forms, a writer who hasn't often turned his hand to stories. Here are stories from every period of his career, in an array of genres: here are a little legend from the middle ages, a parody of those beloved Edwardian travellers' tales, an imagined moment from the life of an English poet and a visit from an English novelist. Here are a ghost story about memory, and an SF story, also about memory. And a final fable about how only the brave deserve the fair. The seven stories here collected for the first time are distinct pieces with different ambitions -- some bright gems, some dark -- but read them and discover the subtle lights that link them, the obsessive themes of twenty years in a writer's life: memory, time, loss, and the hope in writing." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.

Octavo, cloth. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Crowley to David G. Hartwell on the title page: "For David -- / John Crowley / WFC 93." Additionally inscribed to Hartwell by the book's editor, Ron Drummond, on the front free endpaper. "Crowley is best known for his novels, which tend to be long and intricately plotted, but he is also capable of creating quality work of shorter lengths. Thus the seven fantasy and science fiction stories collected here perhaps give readers a greater appreciation of the strength of Crowley's imagination, erudition, and literary style while not getting swept up in a complex story . Each story here is a small well-crafted gem, highly allusive yet not obtrusively so, full of emotion -- mostly longing and especially wonder, a response fantasy airs for but rarely achieves with the force Crowley is able to supply." - Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-84. The trade edition, limited to 1000 copies. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#164018)

Splendidly bound in silken Japanese burgundy cloth with a vertical strip of Egyptian papyrus decorating the front boards. Paper label printed with title and author on the spine. A superb production by Incunabula. Rather scarce, as only 77 signed copies in this binding were produced. John Crowley (1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer.He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom and his Ægypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of Hermeticism, memory, families and religion. First Edition and signed limited edition: #45 of only 77 copies printed.