DEATHBIRD STORIES

First expanded edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Original black faux 'leather' with gilt titles to the spine, in the Gnemo (Tom Kidd) illustrated dustwrapper. Endpapers illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper and housed in the fine original slipcase. Not price-clipped ($125 on the rear flap).

Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies of which this example is numbered 16 and signed by Harlan Ellison in silver ink on the limitation page. A 35th anniversary special edition of Ellison's classic short story collection about modern day American 'gods' (of cars, slot machines and neon, among other) which have replaced older, more orthodox deities. Three new stories, 'From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet', 'Scartaris, June 28th' and 'The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore', have joined the original 19 for this edition, as well as a new afterword by the author. Of this acclaimed and influential collection, 'The Whimper of Whipped Dogs' won the 1974 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story, and 'Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans' won the 1975 Hugo and Locus Awards for Best Novelette and 'The Deathbird' won the 1974 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the 1974 Locus Award for Best Short Story.