OF KINGS AND THINGS: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems.

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Signed by the editor, David Tibet. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, in the Ania Goszczynska designed dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

Signed by David Tibet in blue ink on the half title. Edited and with a 30 page illustrated introduction by David Tibet, an afterword by Timothy d'Arch Smith and full bibliography compiled by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine. A collection of fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections 'Studies of Death' and 'Child of the Soul', more than thirty poems and two essays by, in the words of W. B. Yeats, the "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men", Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895).