signed first edition
1985 · London
by Harrison, M. John
London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1985. First Hardcover Edition. First Hardcover Edition. Signed by the author in ink at title page. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 158pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This new collection of stories returns us to the strange, haunting, mutable world of Viriconium and its citizens. Viriconium is a city of the imagination, a place in which the familiar and the utterly strange mingle together. Everything in Viriconium is subject to change, even its name: in one story it is Vriko; in another Uroconium. Sometimes its inhabitants' pursuits are relatively conventional, as in "The Llama and Lord Cromis", where a hero must fulfill his destiny by destroying a Beast, re-enacting a conflict a hundred generations old. Other tales--such as "Strange Great Sins", in which a sin-eater must lift the burden of sin from a dead girl's soul--create their own, wholly original world. M. John Harrison is a writer of resonant and individual imagination, whose stories, written in prose of unusual beauty and precision, offer unique pleasures.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 14791)
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
This new collection of stories returns us to the strange, haunting, mutable world of Viriconium and its citizens. Viriconium is a city of the imagination, a place in which the familiar and the utterly strange mingle together. Everything in Viriconium is subject to change, even its name: in one story it is Vriko; in another Uroconium. Sometimes its inhabitants' pursuits are relatively conventional, as in "The Llama and Lord Cromis", where a hero must fulfill his destiny by destroying a Beast, re-enacting a conflict a hundred generations old. Other tales--such as "Strange Great Sins", in which a sin-eater must lift the burden of sin from a dead girl's soul--create their own, wholly original world. M. John Harrison is a writer of resonant and individual imagination, whose stories, written in prose of unusual beauty and precision, offer unique pleasures.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 14791)