First collected edition, first printing. Limited edition. Publisher's original dark grey cloth with red titles to the spine and die-cut circular window to the upper board. Illustrated endpapers with a line engraving of Wadham College, Oxford by G. Vertue (1788). Publisher's bookmark laid-in. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.
Issued in an edition of 199 copies, from which this example is numbered 74. 'On the Apparations at Gray's Court' was originally published in 'Haunted Histories' (Series #1 2006) by Swan River Press. 'Labyrinth' was first published in 'The Pale Illuminations' by Sarob Press in 2018. 'In these weird yarns of Academe, the past throws a long shadow and ancient myths survive. Whether labyrinthine landscape or eerie corridors, the locations themselves are players in these uncanny narratives, where the threshold between reality and unreality remains uncertain' (publisher's blurb)
Stock code: 28913
£75
Dusseldorf: Zagava.
2024