CHILDREN OF THE BLACK SABBATH

First Centipede Press edition and first edition with these illustrations, first printing. Signed by Thomas Tessier and Samuel Araya. Original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Samuel Araya illustrated dustwrapper. With two interior Araya illustrations in black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the very lightly rubbed original dustwrapper. Scarce.

Issued in a limited edition of 220, this example is numbered 6 and is signed by Tessier Thomas and Samuel Araya in black ink on the limitation page. A horror novel about demonic possession in a convent by the Canadian author Anne Hébert (1916-2000), originally published in French in 1975. Winner of Canada's highest literary prize, the Governor General's Literary Award.