Expanded edition. Limited edition. Signed by the illustrator and other contributors. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine and pictorial onlay to the upper board, in the J. K. Potter illustrated dustwrapper. Dark purple satin bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. With a colour frontispiece and five black and white illustrations by Rodger Gerberding, and with a gallery of previous editions cover artwork to the rear. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. 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.
Issued in an edition of 200 copies, from which this example is numbered 161, and signed on the colophon by the illustrator Rodger Gerberding, cover artist J. K. Potter, the author of the introduction Douglas A. Anderson, and Darrell Schweitzer, whose interview with author Evangeline Walton is included to the rear of this collection. A facsimile of Walton's signature in black is also present. This expanded edition of Evangeline Walton's 1945 fantasy novel, includes a 20,000 word prologue by Walton, first published here in full, and two chapters of an unfinished novel about the Salem witchcraft trials.
Stock code: 29907
£325