THE BOTTOMS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original green cloth with titles in silver to the spine, in the Alan M. Clark illustrated dustwrapper, in black cloth slipcase. Black silk bookmark. Illustrated with five black and white and colour plates by Alan M. Clark. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions and stamps. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, and tears. Not price-clipped ($150.00 to the upper front flap). Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 400 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies, from which this example is numbered 306 and signed by author Joe R. Lansdale in black ink on the limitation page. Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for 'Best Novel' and was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Award for 'Best Novel' in 2000. This limited edition Subterranean Press edition precedes the trade edition by six months.