MASQUES V

First edition, limited edition. Signed by the authors, editors and illustrator. Publisher's original black paper covered boards with silver titles to the spine, in the Clive Barker and Harry O. Morris illustrated dustwrapper and black faux leather slipcase. Illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with very light bumping to the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 500 copies, from which this example is numbered 95. Signed by the authors Gary A. Braunbeck (also editor), Kealan Patrick Burke, P. D. Cacek, Mort Castle, Christopher Conlon, Geoff Cooper, Sharon Cullers, Ray Garton, Ed Gorman, Barry Hoffman, Ron Horsley, Jack Ketchum, Tracy Knight, John Maclay, Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas F. Monteleone, Joe Nassise, William F. Nolan, Tom Piccirilli, Mark Powers, Judi Rohrig, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas Sullivan, Tim Waggoner, Poppy Z. Brite, and the illustrator Clive Barker in blue and black ink on the flyleaves following on from the limitation page. Signed by the editor J. N. Williamson in black ink on the limitation page. A collection of short stories all published for the first time in this volume, with the exception of 'The Black Wench' by Ray Russell, which was first published in 1985 by Playboy Magazine.