THE WILLIAM ASHBLESS MEMORIAL COOKBOOK

First edition, first printing. Signed by the authors. Original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Phil Parks illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($40 on the front flap).

Issued in a limited edition of 750 copies, this example is numbered 429 and signed by James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers on the limitation page. A humorous recipe book supposedly penned by William Ashbless, a fictional poet created by Blaylock and Powers while they were at university to ridicule the low quality of the poetry published in their university's magazine, later featuring as a character in Powers' novel 'The Anubis Gates' and in Blaylock's 'The Digging Leviathan'.