THE WEIGHT OF WORDS

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the authors. Publisher's original black faux 'leather' with gilt titles to the spine, in the Dave McKean illustrated dustwrapper. With illustrated endpapers, a frontispiece and a further 30 full page sepia illustrations by Dave McKean. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($100 to the rear flap).

Issued in a limited edition of 350 copies of which this example is numbered 189. Signed by all 10 contributing authors, including Dave McKean (who also edited and illustrated the book) and the editor William Schafer, in black and brown ink on the limitation pages. There was also an edition of 26 lettered copies in a traycase. An anthology of ten stories each inspired by one of Dave McKean's paintings. Includes 'The Weight of Words', 'Belladonna Nights', 'The Orange Tree', 'Monkey and the Lady', 'No One Dies in Nowhere', 'Objects in the Mirror', 'Yummie', 'Robo Rapid', 'All I Care About Is You', 'The Language of Birds', 'Broken Face', 'The Train of Death'.