DEATHBIRD STORIES

First expanded edition. Original grey cloth in gilt titles to the spine, in the Gnemo (Tom Kidd) illustrated dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, there is a little faint spotting to the top edge of the closed text-block, the contents are otherwise clean and bright throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original dustwrapper which has a small tear with associated creasing to the mid-spine. Not price-clipped ($45 on the front flap).

A 35th anniversary special edition of Ellison's classic short story collection about modern day American 'gods' (of cars, slot machines and neon, among other) which have replaced older, more orthodox deities. Three new stories, 'From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet', 'Scartaris, June 28th' and 'The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore', have joined the original 19 for this edition, as well as a new afterword by the author. Of this acclaimed and influential collection, 'The Whimper of Whipped Dogs' won the 1974 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story, and 'Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans' won the 1975 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novelette and 'The Deathbird' won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the 1974 Locus Award for Best Short Story.