THE AUCTIONEER

Limited Edition. Signed by the illustrator. Publisher's original orange cloth with red titles to the spine and illustration in copper to the upper board, in the Wendell Minor illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the brown faux leather slipcase. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece and five further black and white full page plates by Dave Christensen. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with light rubbing to the titles on spine, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

The 'Artist edition', issued in an edition of 1000 copies, signed by the illustrator Dave Christensen and dustwrapper artist Wendell Minor in blue ink on the colophon. Joan Samson's debut novel was published to wide acclaim in 1975, with intentions to turn the novel into a film. Soon after publication Joan Samson passed away and 'The Auctioneer' went out of print soon after. In 2007 Centipede Press republished the novel for the first time in 30 years.