Truth Horror, Signed (2 results)

Condition: Good. 2020. 225 pages. Signed by the author. Blue pictorial paperback. Title page has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Corners are dogeared in places. Paper cover is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine. Sticker to front.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, Only Printing, For Private Circulation Only, limited to a very small print run, this the copy of legendary bookman, Martin Stone, double-inscribed and with a doodle by acclaimed British novelist Michael Moorcock: "To Martin - Hoping you have a WIZARD read. Lots of love, yore Mike (1 Nov. 07 Paris)" and "Granpaw Moorcock (Texas)" with doodle. Octavo (9 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.). 265, (5) pp., b&w illustrations throughout. Publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered spine, illustrated endpapers, bookseller's ticket to recto of rear fly. The first Lord Horror novel was pronounced obscene by a magistrate in Manchester in August 1991, the first novel since Last Exit to Brooklyn (1968) to be banned in an English court. "Lord Horror makes most horror fiction look tame and safe. Awesomely grotesque, unstoppably imaginative, hideously funny, it's a truly dangerous book" (Ramsey Campbell). The number of copies printed of this addition to the Lord Horror series is unknown but definitely small, perhaps fewer than 20 copies of this grand hoax, a masterpiece of appropriation art: it is a reimagining of The Truth About Wilson by W.S.K. Webb (pseud. of Gilbert Lawford Dalton), originally published in 1962. Britton has retained the entire text, merely replacing all references to Wilson ("The Wonder Athlete") with the name Lord Horror. The original captions to all of the book's illustrations have been rewritten, and Britton has contributed new illustrations, revamped some of the originals as well as the dust jacket design. Very Fine in like dust jacket. Scarce, signed or otherwise.