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Blackwater
by McDowell, Michael
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- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
[irvine, CA): Suntup Editions, 2022. Limited Edition. Thick Octavo. Artist edition. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Marcel Bolivar who created the illustrations and Maxime Plasse who illustrated the map of Perdido and the family tree. Color frontispiece, 870pp. plus the covers of the original paperback series published in 1983 in color. One of the finest writers of Southern Gothic horror in the late 70s though the mid 90s, who unfortunately died young of AIDS in the 1990s. Stephen King has praised him for this genre, and his writing style is very literary/descriptive. Blackwater was originally published as a serial novel in 6 paperback originals, and is considered McDowell's magnum opus. Here, the whole saga has been published by Sunup in one volume, with incredible illustrations. A fine bright copy bound in green cloth lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt over black, in a fine pictorial dust jacket and housed within its faux aligator skin slipcase,
Synopsis
On cover: Michael McDowell's Blackwater: IV.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029084
- Title
- Blackwater
- Author
- McDowell, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Suntup Editions
- Place of Publication
- [irvine, CA)
- Date Published
- 2022
- Keywords
- Artist Edition
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...