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THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN and Other Gothic Tales
by Ligotti, Thomas
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2011. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus, incorporating the author's substantial revisions. This is copy number 285 of 500 signed by Thomas Ligotti and illustrator Harry O. Morris. This new edition of Ligotti's brilliant vignettes features eleven new artworks created especially for the book. Tall octavo. In a striking three-piece velvet cloth binding, with gilt titles, marbled endpapers, and two ribbon markers. A fine copy, as new, housed in the publisher's slipcase.
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- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75931
- Title
- THE AGONIZING RESURRECTION OF VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN and Other Gothic Tales
- Author
- Ligotti, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Centipede Press
- Place of Publication
- Lakewood, Colorado
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Macabre, Weird Tales
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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