WRITING MADNESS

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Limited Edition. Signed by the author and illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine and illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Harry Brockway illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. With a frontispiece and four full page black and white illustrations by Harry Brockway. 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 is free from fading, loss or tears.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 111 and signed by the author Patrick McGrath, illustrator Harry Brockway, editor Danel Olson and author of the introduction Joyce Carol Oates in black ink on the colophon. "Writing Madness is a new, massive collection of short fiction, novellas, and essays by Patrick McGrath. It features the complete contents of McGrath's brilliant 1987 debut collection, Blood and Water and Other Tales, the three novellas of Ghost Town, six previously uncollected short stories, seven essays, and over 20 of McGrath's insightful and engaging introductions and book reviews from over the years." - publisher's blurb.