HELLSTONE

First hardcover edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in white to the spine and blue illustration to the boards, in the David Ho illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge green. Illustrated throughout with a full page double page frontispiece illustration and five full page colour plates by David Ho, as well as numerous reproduced black and white images. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which remains free from fading, loss or tears.

Issued in an edition of 500 copies, from which this example is numbered 362 and signed by the author Steven Spruill, author of the introduction F. Paul Wilson and the illustrator David Ho, in blue and black ink on the colophon. First published in 1981 as a paperback original by Playboy Press, it subsequently fell out of print and is published here for the first time in forty years. A novel based on the myth of the Loch Ness Monster.