THE BOOK OF MAGIC

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the authors. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Tommy Arnold illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated with story headings and full page colour plates by Tommy Arnold. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the burgundy cloth slipcase with titles in gilt to the side and backstrip. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 78 and signed by the contributing authors. Titles include "The Return of the Pig" by K. J. Parker; "Community Service" by Megan Lindholm; "Flint and Mirror" by John Crowley; "The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable" by Matthew Hughes; "The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror: Chapter Two: Jumping Jack in Love" by Ysabeau S. Wilce; "Song of Fire" by Rachel Pollack; "Loft the Sorcerer" by Eleanor Arnason; "The Governor" by Tim Powers; "Sungrazer" by Liz Williams; "The Staff in the Stone" by Garth Nix; "No Work of Mine" by Elizabeth Bear; "Widow Maker" by Lavie Tidhar; "The Wolf and the Manticore" by Greg Van Eekhout; "A Night at the Tarn House" by George R. R. Martin; "The Devil's Whatever" by Andy Duncan; "Bloom" by Kate Elliott; "The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril" by Scott Lynch. The editor Gardner Dozois contributes the introduction and is the only contributor not to have signed (as issued). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…