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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."
The Peacock Escritoire with At Dusk by Valentine, Mark - 2023
by Valentine, Mark
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The Peacock Escritoire with At Dusk
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Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2023. First edition thus, Hardcover, SIGNED, New in dust jacket,. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2023. First edition thus, Hardcover, SIGNED, New in dust jacket, 243 pp.<br/> This edition limited to 350 copies. "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."
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- Book Condition New First edition thus, Hardcover, SIGNED, New in dust jacket,
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- Binding Hardcover
- ISBN 10 1912586487
- ISBN 13 9781912586486
- Publisher Tartarus Press
- Place of Publication Leyburn
- Date Published 2023
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The Peacock Escritoire with At Dusk
by Valentine, Mark
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The Peacock Escritoire With At Dusk (signed by the author)
by Valentine, Mark
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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).
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