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Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works
Science-fiction & fantasy literature: a critical list with discussions.
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The Dark Tales: Available Copies
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The Dark Tales [Deluxe Lettered Edition] by Salmonson, Jessica Amanda
Seller: Idler Fine Books (Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $125.00
Shipping: $6.85
TOTAL Cost: $131.85
Stated first printing. Deluxe, lettered edition, limited to 52 lettered and signed copies, this copy is SS. Signed by Jessica Amanda Salmonson directly on the colophon page. Book, dust jacket, and slip case in fine, as new condition.
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Seller: Print Matters (London, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $126.86
Shipping: $49.26
TOTAL Cost: $176.12
Sarob Press 2002. 1st Edition. Limited Edition. Book condition: M - Mint. Dust Jacket. None illustrations. Dust Jacket condition: M - Mint. First edition from a run limited to just 225 copies. This collection of sinister tales features: 'Hode of the High Place' 'The One Great Achievement of Padrine Luil' 'Wrath of the Ebon Knights' 'Winged Llama of the Mesa' 'The Revelations and Pursuits of Timith Son of Timith' 'A Rain of Spiders' 'The Black Desert of Gomba Mo' 'The Ravaging in the Dell' 'Meadow Silence' 'The Assassin's Foe' 'The Entity from Before Creation' 'The Piebald Man' 'Nitimandrey and the Cabinetmaker's Vision' Released in limited edition from the Welsh specialty publisher Sarob Press, a collection of gloomy, appalling, downbeat and Decadent high fantasy tales inspired by Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, William Morris, and broadly by the English Decadence. Wraparound dustwrapper by Lara Bandilla captures the darkness of the stories, and appears to have been inspired by Steve Fabian. There is an Afterword about how or why such relentlessly cruel and possibly sick stories came to be written. 152 pages. Size: 6" x 9" (160mm x 240mm). ISBN: 1902309243. (0.4)
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