Crystal Express
signed
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989. Dust jacket and full page black and white illustrations by Rick Lieder. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in an unclipped jacket (18.95). Octavo. Black boards with gold titles stamped on the spine. 264 pp.
Signed by the Author and dated Atlanta Nov '92. Possibly at the 18th World Fantasy Convention.
This is the author's first book published by Arkham House and collects all Sterling's Shaper / Mechanist stories including the 1982 novella "Swarm".
The other short stories included:
Spider Rose; Cicada Queen; Sunken Gardens; Twenty Evocations; Green Days in Brunei; Spook; The Beautiful and the Sublime; Telliamed; The Little Magic Shop; Flowers of Edo; Dinner in Audoghast
Fine. The pages are clean and bright, binding solid and square and pages unmarked. / Near Fine with very mild shelfwear. Presented in a protective mylar cover. Item #94
Price: $100.00