THE MINES OF BEHEMOTH

first edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator and author of the preface. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in orange to the spine, with illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Stanislav Dikolenko illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge green. Blue silk bookmark. Marbled endpapers. With a colour frontispiece by Gary Ruddell and six black and white plates by Richard Hescox. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine illustrated dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 130, and signed by the illustrator Richard Hescox and the author of the preface Thomas Ligotti in bronze and silver ink, respectively, on the colophon which also has facsimiles of author Michael Shea and illustrator Stanislav Dikolenko's signatures in white. The second novel in Shea's 'Nifft' series, first published in book form in 1997 by Baen Publishing (Wake Forest, NC).