Fine in a Fine first-state dustjacket (as well as a Near Fine second-state dustjacket). Bound in full brown cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt; the front panel in blind. Octavo. 100pps., plus a colophon. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The first-state dustjacket (with trimmed descenders on the spine lettering -- corrected early), glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new. The second dustjacket has a very faintly sunfaded spine -- otherwise fine. The original price is intact on both jackets. SIGNED by the author in his calligraphic hand -- and without further inscription -- on the title-page. One of only 1,000 copies of the first edition, scarce signed, and even more uncommon with both the first-state and the spare dustjackets.

"...Here are rarities: seven stories by a writer known best for work in long forms, a writer who hasn't often turned his hand to stories.
Here are stories from every period of his career, in an array of genres: here are a little legend from the middle ages, a parody of those beloved Edwardian travellers' tales, an imagined moment from the life of an English poet and a visit from an English novelist. Here are a ghost story about memory, and an SF story, also about memory. And a final fable about how only the brave deserve the fair.
The seven stories here collected for the first time are distinct pieces with different ambitions -- some bright gems, some dark -- but read them and discover the subtle lights that link them, the obsessive themes of twenty years in a writer's life: memory, time, loss, and the hope in writing..."

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