STOREYS FROM THE OLD HOTEL [with] FOR ROSEMARY

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth, with gilt titles and illustration to the spine and upper board, in the Pete Lion illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the blue cloth slipcase. Complete with 'For Rosemary' as issued. A excellent near fine set, the bindings square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Both volumes have a touch of fading to the spine. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper which is free from loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£13.95 to the front flap). Housed in the structurally sound slipcase, which has some light marks to the extremities.

Issued in a 'Collector's edition' of 250 copies of which this example is numbered 169 and signed by Gene Wolfe in black ink on the limitation page. There was also a signed trade edition of 1000 copies issued without the additional poetry volume 'For Rosemary', or a slipcase. A further 26 copies were quarter bound in leather and reserved for private distribution. A collection of 35 short stories, of which 'In the Old Hotel' is published here for the first time. Winner of the 1989 World Fantasy Award for best collection.