SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the author of the introduction and the illustrators. Publisher's original quarter black cloth with illustrated cloth-covered boards, with titles in blind to the spine, in the Matt Mahurin wraparound-illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the black and blue illustrated cloth capped slipcase, with light blue titles and pictorial onlay to the backstrip. Top edge blue. Marbled endpapers. Black satin bookmark. Richly illustrated with six two-colour wood engravings by Vladimir Zimakov and various stereoscopic black and white illustrations by David Ho throughout, complete with the original 3D viewer housed in a plastic holder in the blue paper-covered compartment fixed to the rear pastedown, as issued. Includes colourised gallery of cover art from previous editions and film poster artwork at the rear. An excellent fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete in the dustwrapper which remains without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 272, and signed by the author of the introduction Neil Gaiman, and illustrators Matt Mahurin, David Ho, and Vladimir Zimakov in red and black ink, respectively, on the colophon. A classic work of horror and dark fantasy about an ominous carnival, beautifully produced by Centipede Press and arrestingly illustrated by Vladimir Zimakov and David Ho. 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' has been adapted multiple times for screen, stage and radio, including the 1983 Disney-produced film of the same name starring Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd and Pam Grier.