DEATHBIRD STORIES

New York: The Easton Press, 1990. The Masterpieces of Science Fiction / Edition Extensively Revised by the Author. Full Leather with decorative gold-stamping. Like New. SIGNED by the Author on a special publisher's front endpaper, 8vo, full black leather with hubs, gold lettering and "deathbird" head on spine plus front cover with golden deathbird on skull: artwork by Jill Bauman, Introduction by Terry Dowling (Australian critic and author of The Essential Harlan Ellison), satin page-marker, all edges gilt [a.e.g.], xviii, [xix-xxii] + 345 pages + [1] Books by Harlan Ellison. "The Easton Press / The Masterpieces of Science Fiction: Collector's Notes" on heavy stock (2pp.) laid in. Harlan Ellison's original stories were published by Harper & Row in 1975; St. Martin's Press in 1983. The DEATHBIRD stories have been revised and corrected for this finely bound and produced Easton Press edition.<br /> <br /> Ralph Waldo Ellison (1913 - 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel INVISIBLE MAN, which won the National Book Award in 1953. <br /> <br /> This fine leather and corrected edition collects nineteen stories. These iIclude the Hugo Award winning stories: "The Deathbird" (1973), and "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans" (1974).<br /> <br /> SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. LIKE NEW CONDITION internally & externally! Very Tight, bright, clean. No previous owner's markings.