PICKING THE BONES

Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original black faux leather with titles in silver to the upper board and spine, in the Vincent Chong illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in black faux leather, felt-lined traycase with titles in silver to the upper board and spine. Blue silk bookmark. Textured endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears. Not price-clipped ($40.00 to the upper front flap).

Issued in an edition of 26 lettered copies. This example is out of series, marked 'PC', and signed by the author Brian Hodge in black ink on the limitation page. This short fiction collection includes "If I Should Wake Before I Die", "The Passion of the Beast", "De Fortuna", "The Firebrand Symphony", "Brushed in Blackest Silence", "Pu!!", "An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Flesh", "And They Will Come In The Hour of Our Greatest Need", "Where the Black Stars Fall", "When the Silence Gets Too Loud", and "Hate the Sinner, Love the Sin".