Ambergris + Appendix; 2 volume set

UNREAD. SIGNED. Limited Edition of 500 hardcover copies; this being number 437. Excellent condition as received from the publisher. Only Vol-1, Ambergris, is signed by the author Jeff VanderMeer on the limitation page. The second volume, the Ambergris Appendix, is not signed with no limitation page. Ambergris is a world created by VanderMeer and is central to the series of short stories, novelettes and such that make up the City of Saints and Madmen storyline and collected here as well is the Appendix which includes more stores as well as a glossary and writings about the creation of this series. The Appendix also includes a 10,000 word piece titled The Zamilon File, which was previously unpublished.
Vol-1 Ambergris is a massive 771 pages. The wraparound jacket art is by Armando Veve. Interior artwork by: Jeff VanderMeer, Eric Schaller, Jonathan Caller & John Coulthart.Vol-2; Ambergris Appendix is 330 pages. The wraparound jacket art is by Scott Eagle.
Both volumes together weigh about 7.5 lbs., so they would not qualify for Biblio's discounted international shipping program. Table of Contents — Ambergris
City of Saints and MadmenDradin, In Love
The Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of The City of AmbergrisThe Transformation of Martin Lake
The Strange Case of XShriek: An Afterword
FinchAcknowledgments
Table of Contents — Ambergris AppendixA Letter from Dr. V to Dr. Simpkin
X's NotesThe Release of Belacqua
King SquidThe Hoegbotton Family History
The CageIn the Hours After Death
A Note from Dr. V to Dr. SimpkinThe Exchange
Learning to Leave the FleshThe Ambergris Glossary
A Note on FontsThe Zamilon File (10,000 words, previously unpublished)
Ambergris: A Long, Weird Road to Publication©2021 Subterranean Press

You have explored the Southern Reach, now walk the streets of a city like no other.
Between these covers, the cult classic works of Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris offer readers a tour de force of language and imagination. In a rich and heady mix of arcane words and unforgettable images, fantastic characters and startling events—in the collection, City of Saints and Madmen, and the novels, Shriek: an Afterword, and Finch—test, then shatter the limits of what speculative fiction can do.The title city is a place of vivid, terrible beauty, exhibiting sophisticated cruelties and dangers experienced as something approaching art. Following, an afterword as epic, where secrets and obsessions play out on streets above a rising force of a people unlike any other in fantasy fiction. And finally, in an Ambergris conquered and enslaved, a desperate man seeks the answers to both a crime that may be unsolvable and the troubling mystery of the future of the city itself.
New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer exhibits his masterful control over chaos and his unparalleled ability to render the bizarre and terrifying as things of beauty. Objects of desire simultaneously promise exaltation and damnation, and startlingly real people play out their fascinating lives in their fascinating city.