A REVERIE FOR MISTER RAY: Reflections on Life, Death, and Speculative Fiction.

First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Jamie Bishop illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with fine dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears.

Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies of which this example in not numbered (out of series) and signed by Michael Bishop in black ink on the limitation page. There was also an edition of 200 slipcased copies signed by Michael Bishop, Michael H. Hutchins and Jeff VanderMeer. A collection of 69 essays written over four decades, including a manifesto on reviewing, his influences, a satirical uncollected short story and a revealing autobiography.