Fevre Dream

Martin, George R. R.

ISBN 10: 067145577X / ISBN 13: 9780671455774

Published by Poseidon Press, New York, 1982

About this Item

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 350 pages; [SIGNED] 1982 Poseidon Press. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. With complete 1-10 printing line on the copyright page. Inscribed by Martin on the title page "To [xxx xxxx], / May your blood / always be fevered / by beauty / [signature] ." Bound in red quarter cloth backed spine and black paper covered boards. Dust jacket is uniformly bright and clean with $14.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap, but with a short "half thumb nail" sized chip base of spine, a tiny nick top edge of rear panel and trace shelf rubbing at tips. Small Simon and Shuster running man remainder stamp bottom edge. A Highpoint of Vampire gothic and of Martin's early work, with Martin's distinctively individualized inscription and signature. VG++/VG or better.

Seller Inventory # 55903

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fevre Dream
• Publisher: Poseidon Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067145577X
• ISBN 13: 9780671455774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Signed by Author
  • Modern 1st editions

About this title

Synopsis

During the icy winter of 1857, riverboat man Abner Marsh is made captain of his own grand Mississippi steamboat by Joshua York, a vampire intent upon saving his maligned race from extinction

From the Inside Flap

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something's amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn't care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh's dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won't earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh's concern--no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove.
Marsh meant to turn down York's offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolve--coupled with the terrible force of York's mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind's most impossible dream.
Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire's quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman's dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river.