THE ESCAPEMENT

First UK hardcover edition, limited edition. Signed by the author. Author's copy. Publisher's original illustrated boards, in the Pedro Marques illustrated dustwrapper, and pictorial slipcase. With illustrated endpapers and a black and white map illustration preceding the text. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with just a touch of rubbing to the spine tips and a tiny scuff to the fore-edge of the lower board. The contents are clean throughout. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper, that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£50 to the lower rear panel). Housed in the structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 100 copies, from which this example is labelled 'PC' [publisher's copy], and signed by Lavie Tidhar in blue ink on the limitation page and with his ownership signature in black ink on the verso. Recipient of the 2022 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation. Nominated for the 2022 Locus Award for 'Best Fantasy Novel'. Drawing inspiration from a wide array of literary sources and real personages, including (but not limited to) the Hebrew fairy tale 'The Heart of the Golden Flower' by Z. Ariel (1930), 'The Epic of Gilgamesh', Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ozymandias' poem (1818) and the English comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, Tidhar here presents a multi-genre surrealist tale of a gunslinger on a quest to find the mythical healing flower Ur-Shanabi that will save his son. Provenance: From the library of Lavie Tidhar, multi-award winning author of such works as 'Osama' (2011) and 'Central Station' (2016).