THE BEST OF MICHAEL SWANWICK

First edition. Signed by the author. Limited edition. Publisher's original faux brown leather with gilt titles to the spine, in the Lee Moyer illustrated dustwrapper. Blue textured endpapers. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, bright and fresh with just a few tiny spots to the closed top edge of the text block. Publisher's errata sheet loosely laid in. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies, this example is numbered 18 and signed by Michael Swanwick on the limitation page at the front. Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific writers of his generation, as well as being the only person ever to win five Hugo Awards for fiction in the space of six years. All five of those stories are included here. The collection comprises 'The Feast of St. Janis'; 'Ginungagap'; 'Trojan Horse'; 'A Midwinter's Tale'; 'The Edge of the World'; 'Griffin's Egg'; 'The Changeling's Tale'; 'North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy'; 'Radio Waves'; 'The Dead'; 'Mother Grasshopper'; 'Radiant Doors'; 'The Very Pulse of the Machine'; 'Wild Minds'; 'Scherzo with Tyrannosaur'; 'The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O'; 'The Dog Said Bow-Wow'; 'Slow Life'; 'Legions in Time'; 'Triceratops Summer'; 'From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled...'.