THE TERROR

Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original bright blue cloth with black titles to the spine, in the John Picacio illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, this example is numbered 217 and signed by Dan Simmons in black ink on the limitation page. A fictionalised account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. Nominated for the 2008 British Fantasy Award. The basis for the excellent AMC television adaptation starring Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies, Paul Ready and Ciarán Hinds.