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Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2023. Trade paperback, New,. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2023. Trade paperback, New, 243 pp.<br/> Now a quality paperback. "A stranger returns a silver coin; a dream museum releases its dreams; a dying Futurist knows more than he can tell; the author of Dr Saprophyte has plans for his last volume; a park-keeper makes his books from autumn leaves; an Alexandrian jasper gem holds clues to serpentine secrets; in Prague a street artist meets fortune-tellers in a tower above the city. All these possibilities and more are to be found in Mark Valentine's sought-after collection, The Peacock Escritoire. This new Tartarus Press edition offers three previously uncollected stories: 'Wine of the Serpent', 'So, About Hats' and 'That Nothing Human Scorn'. The long story 'The Return to Trebizond', about the lost heir of a Caucasian principality and the last echoes of the Byzantine Empire, is also included."

Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire, 2023. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. THE PEACOCK ESCRITOIRE was first published as a very limited edition (with peacock feather!) by Ex Occidente Press in 2011.and AT DUSK similarly (without the peacock feather) by Exposition Internationale: Budapest in 2012. This new Tartarus Press hardcover reprints them both along with three previously uncollected stories, plus ''The Return To Trebizond''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Tartarus Press Michael Dirda has written of this book: "In whatever he writes, Mark Valentine draws on his extensive reading in forgotten authors and books. Consider the 17 stories and 35 prose poems in The Peacock Escritoire, packaged in this volume with At Dusk. In "Sime in Samarkand," for instance, the celebrated fantasy artist Sidney Sime reluctantly agrees to illustrate James Elroy Fleckers "The Golden Journey to Samarkand." It turns out that Sime, like the protagonist of Lovecrafts "Pickmans Model," doesnt imagine unearthly beings; he copies them from life." This is a signed limited edition, beautifully bound.. Signed by Author. Limited Edition.. Hardcover. New/New.