First edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original yellow cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Ken Laager illustrated dustwrapper. With a header illustration for each story, colour plates and full page black and white drawings by Ken Laager throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Housed in the publisher's purple cloth slipcase illustrated and with titles in silver.
Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, this example is numbered 293 and signed by every story contributor and editor across six pages at the front of the volume. George R. R. Martin in addition to contributing the final story (a 'Song of Ice and Fire' novella) also provides the introduction 'Everybody Loves a Rogue'. The anthology comprises 'Tough Times All Over' by Joe Abercrombie; 'What Do You Do' by Gillian Flynn; 'The Inn of the Seven Blessings' by Matthew Hughes; 'Bent Twig (a Hap and Leonard story)' by Joe R. Lansdale; 'Tawny Petticoats' by Michael Swanwick; 'Provenance' by David W. Ball; 'Roaring Twenties' by Carrie Vaughn; 'A Year and a Day in Old Theradine' by Scott Lynch; 'Bad Brass' by Bradley Denton; 'Heavy Metal' by Cherie Priest; 'The Meaning of Love' by Daniel Abraham; 'A Better Way to Die' by Paul Cornell; 'Ill Seen in Tyre' by Steven Saylor; 'A Cargo of Ivories' by Garth Nix; 'Diamonds from Tequila' by Walter Jon Williams; 'The Caravan to Nowhere' by Phyllis Eisenstein; 'The Curious Affair of the Dead Wives' by Lisa Tuttle; 'How the Marquis Got His Coat Back' by Neil Gaiman; 'Now Showing' by Connie Willis; 'The Lightning Tree' by Patrick Rothfuss; 'The Rogue Prince, or, A King's Brother' by George R. R. Martin.
Stock code: 25456
£575