THE DRESDEN FILES: STORM FRONT; FOOL MOON; GRAVE PERIL; SUMMER KNIGHT; DEATH MASKS; BLOOD RITES; DEAD BEAT; PROVEN GUILTY; WHITE NIGHT; SMALL FAVOR; TURN COAT; CHANGES; GHOST STORY; COLD DAYS; SKIN GAME; SIDE JOBS; BRIEF CASES; THE LAW; WORKING FOR BIGFOOT.

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. 19 volumes. Signed by the author in every volume. Publisher's original quarter faux leather and cloth-covered boards (volumes two and nineteen bound in full faux leather), with metallic titles to the spines, in the Vincent Chong illustrated dustwrappers. Each in the publisher's full cloth (first three volumes) or half faux-leather and cloth solander boxes. Textured endpapers. With striking black and white illustrations by Vincent Chong in every volume except 'The Law', and with colour plates in 'Side Jobs' and 'The Law'. A superb fine set, the bindings square and firm, with just a touch of spotting to the upper board of volume six, the cloth is otherwise bright and fresh. The contents, with just the occasional tiny spot to the prelims, are otherwise clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete in the very lightly rubbed dustwrappers, which are without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the near fine, lightly worn, structurally sound solander boxes.

Each volume issued in an edition of just 26 lettered copies, the first three volumes of which are lettered 'T' and the remaining 16 volumes are lettered 'A'. All are signed by Jim Butcher on the limitation pages. This excellent set comprises the first fifteen 'Dresden' novels, two omnibuses ('Side Jobs' and 'Brief Cases'), a collection of three novellas ('Working for Bigfoot'), and a chapbook ('The Law'). One of the most successful urban fantasy series, following the supernatural cases of wizard PI Harry Dresden set in modern-day Chicago. Jim Butcher first conceived of 'The Dresden Files' while undertaking writing classes in 1996 taught by science fiction and fantasy author Deborah Chester, later reflecting "I fought my writing teacher tooth and nail for the longest time, flatly rejecting a lot of very good advice she was giving me. When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files" (2004: Alisa McCune for SF Site). After searching for a publisher for nearly three years, Butcher's first 'Dresden' novel 'Storm Front' was published in the US in 2000 by Roc Books, and in the UK five years later by Orbit Books. 'Storm Front' went on to receive a nomination for the 2001 Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award. The fifteenth 'Dresden' novel 'Skin Game' was a finalist for the 2015 Hugo Award for 'Best Novel'. The series has been adapted for other media several times, notably into a series of award-winning graphic novels and the 2007 television series 'The Dresden Files', produced by Nicolas Cage and starring Paul Blackthorne as Harry Dresden.