First Centipede Press edition, first printing. Signed by the author, contributor, and illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in silver to the spine, with colour illustration by David Ho onlay to the upper board, in the David Ho illustrated dustwrapper. Purple silk ribbon page marker. With illustrated endpapers. Illustrated to the rear with nine black and white photographs of the author and facsimiles of the author's handwritten notes. A fine copy, the binding square and firm. The contents are clean throughout, with a very light mark to the text block edge, otherwise without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original pictorial dustwrapper which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss or tears.
Issued in an edition of 300 copies from which this example is numbered 180 and signed by William F. Nolan, Jason V. Brock, and David Ho in bronze, gold and blue ink, respectively, on the colophon. This edition includes 'What Legends May Come: A Discussion with Richard Matheson and William F. Nolan', an interview by Jason V. Brock, following the text.
Stock code: 28804
£135