THE DRESDEN FILES: STORM FRONT; FOOL MOON; GRAVE PERIL; SUMMER KNIGHT; DEATH MASKS; BLOOD RITES; DEAD BEAT; PROVEN GUILTY; WHITE NIGHT; SMALL FAVOR; TURN COAT; CHANGES; GHOST STORY; COLD DAYS; SKIN GAME; SIDE JOBS; BRIEF CASES; BACKUP; WORKING FOR BIGFOOT.

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. 19 volumes. Signed by the author in each volume. Publisher's original cloth or faux leather ('Backup' and 'Working for Bigfoot') with metallic titles to the spine, in the Vincent Chong and Mike Mignola ('Backup') illustrated dustwrappers. Textured endpapers. With two colour plates in 'Side Jobs' by Vincent Chong, and striking black and white illustrations in every volume by Chong or Mike Mignola ('Backup'). A very near fine set, the bindings square and firm, with a tiny mark to the top-right corner of the lower board of volume eight, the cloth is otherwise bright and fresh. The contents, with just a little spotting to the top edge of the closed text block (volumes two, four, five, six, eight, eighteen and nineteen, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete in the bright, very lightly rubbed dustwrappers, volume twelve with a tiny closed tear to the front panel of volume 12, and a light stain with associated surface loss to the underside of the rear panel of volume eight. None of the volumes are price-clipped. An attractive set.

Each volume issued in an edition of 500 copies, of which volume one is numbered 488, volume eighteen is numbered 68, and remaining 17 volumes are numbered 128. All are signed by Jim Butcher in the limitation page. Comprising the first fifteen 'Dresden' novels, two omnibus volumes ('Side Jobs' and 'Brief Cases'), a collection of three novellas ('Working for Bigfoot') and a chapbook ('Backup'). One of the most successful urban fantasy series, following the supernatural cases of wizard PI Harry Dresden set in modern-day Chicago. Jim Butcher first conceived of 'The Dresden Files' while undertaking writing classes in 1996 taught by science fiction and fantasy author Deborah Chester, later reflecting "I fought my writing teacher tooth and nail for the longest time, flatly rejecting a lot of very good advice she was giving me. When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files" (2004: Alisa McCune for SF Site). After searching for a publisher for nearly three years, Butcher's first 'Dresden' novel 'Storm Front' was published in the US in 2000 by Roc Books, and in the UK five years later by Orbit Books. 'Storm Front' went on to receive a nomination for the 2001 Compton Crook Stephen Tall Memorial Award. The fifteenth 'Dresden' novel 'Skin Game' was a finalist for the 2015 Hugo Award for 'Best Novel'. The series has been adapted for other media several times, notably into a series of award-winning graphic novels and the 2007 television series 'The Dresden Files', produced by Nicolas Cage and starring Paul Blackthorne as Harry Dresden.