THE DREAMS OF CARDINAL VITTORINI AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. One of 50 copies thus. Publisher's original illustrated boards. Illustrated by the author. Ribbon page marker. An excellent very near fine copy, the binding square and tight. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Uncommon in the signed first edition.

One of 50 copies, from a total edition of 300, signed by Reggie Oliver in black ink on the half title. The author's ground-breaking first book of short fiction which was nominated, in the 'best collection' category, for a 2003 International Horror Guild Award. The volume includes a foreword by the author, an introduction by Christopher Barker and 15 stories including 'Beside the Shrill Sea'; 'Feng Shui'; 'In Arcadia'; 'Evil Eye'; 'Miss Marchant's Cause'; 'Tiger in the Snow'; 'Garden Gods'; 'The Black Cathedral'; 'The Boy in Green Velvet'; 'The Golden Basilica'; 'Death Mask'; 'A Warning to the Antiquary'; 'The Seventeenth Sister'; 'The Copper Wig'; 'The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini'. The volume, omitting 'A Warning to the Antiquary', was reprinted by The Tartarus Press in 2012.