Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest Books, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo., 322pp. Beautiful Unread Stated Deluxe First Edition. #377 of only 550 copies printed. Bound in original olive green pebbled cloth with titles on spine in black. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Remarkably fresh and bright unclipped dust-jacket, ($21.95 on the front flap for the Trade Edition, $55 on the rear flap for the Deluxe Edition), has no creases, tears or chipping. Fine publisher's slip case. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. Illustrated by Ron Lindahn and Val Lakey Lindahn. Signed by the author and both artists on the limitation page. A gorgeous collectable copy.

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Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story anthology by the American author Dan Simmons. It includes 13 of his earlier works, along with an introduction by Harlan Ellison in which the latter relates how he "discovered" Dan Simmons at the Colorado Mountain College's "Writers' Conference in the Rockies" in 1981. The title is a borrowed line from T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men".

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Bookseller: Brenner's Collectable Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 009151
Title: Prayers to Broken Stones
Author: Simmons, Dan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0913165581
ISBN 13: 9780913165584
Publisher: Dark Harvest Books
Place of Publication: Arlington Heights, IL
Date Published: 1990
Bookseller catalogs: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror; Signed/Inscribed;

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