The Drawing of the Dark (signed limited edition)

Tim Powers

ISBN 10: 0940841118 / ISBN 13: 9780940841116

Published by Hypatia Press, Eugene , OR, 1991

About this Item

Fine, fresh, unread copy. One of 825 cloth-bound numbered copies (of which this is No. 801) SIGNED on the limitation page by Powers, James P. Blaylock ( who provided the afterword) and K.M. Jeter (introduction). "First hardcover edition" stated, bound in tan leather ornately lettered in red and black. Issued without dust jacket. Historical fantasy novel first published only in paperback in 1979.

Seller Inventory # E32582

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Drawing of the Dark (signed limited edition)
• Publisher: Hypatia Press, Eugene , OR
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0940841118
• ISBN 13: 9780940841116
• Binding: Leather_bound
• Edition: Limited ed.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Drawing of the Dark (first published in 1979) was the author's third novel and first foray into the fantasy genre. It is the year 1529 and Brian Duffy, an aging soldier of fortune, has been hired in Venice by a strange old man called Aurelianus to go to Vienna and act as bouncer at an inn where the fabulous Herzwesten beer was brewed. During Brian's journey from Venice to Vienna, he crosses the Dolomite Mountains where he is escorted and protected from assassins by dwarves and creatures Brian knew only from mythology.

Once in Vienna, Duffy is swept up in the bloodshed and sorcery of the siege of Vienna by the Turkish Ottoman Empire under Suleiman and his wizard Ibrahim. Fighting Eastern demons and leading mythological Western allies, Duffy learns his true identity and destiny in the crucible of a war that decided the fate of Europe, but it is up to him to preserve the West until the drawing of the Dark.