BOOK DESCRIPTION
Hannes Bok in his apartment on West 109th, NYC / Photo Copyright © Martin Jukovsky

THE FANTASTIC FICTION OF HANNES BOK

Mockup of Trade Edition

1st edition, Trade Hardcover

Collecting: The Sorcerer’s Ship, Beyond the Golden Stair and Starstone World

Never-Before-Published (with such a sharp image) cover by Hannes Bok (Courtesy John Cosgriff)

Both The Sorcerer's Ship and Beyond the Golden Stair were previously published as part of
Ballantine Books' Adult Fantasy paperback line. His first novel-length tale: Starstone World, is a much shorter
and darker piece, which has never been reprinted since it appeared in
Science Fiction Quarterly #7, [Summer of 1942], over 75 years ago.

An introduction to the book by Charles de Lint.

Ballantine Adult Fantasy series editor Lin Carter's introductions to
The Sorcerer's Ship and Beyond The Golden Stair.

An all-new afterword detailing the history of The Sorcerer's Ship by
Bok collector and college professor William Lorenzo.

An introduction to Starstone World and afterword to Beyond The Golden Stair by Publisher Bob Garcia.

Bok's Unknown World's art for The Sorcerer's Ship will be included, plus two paintings specified
by the artist as illustrating that novel: a color reprise of the ship illustration and a
color portrait of the creature Yanuk done for a Jack Cordes. As well as numerous sketches unpublished
and published.

Legendary fantasy artist and Bok aficionado JIM PITTS provided all-new
Frontispieces for Beyond The Golden Stair and Starstone World

Reprint of Bok's longtime friend and photographer Martin Jukovsky's memorial
from in Castle of Frankenstein #6. Plus a few of his photographs of Bok and a Bok photograph of him.

Previously unpublished photos of Hannes Bok.

Hannes Bok's poem "The Ka of Kor-Sethon"

Unpublished mouse sketch by Bok

Blue cloth, 448 pages, 4-color dustjacket, plain endpapers printed on Acid-free paper.

Mockup of FFOHB LTD. ED.

The Signed, Limited Edition

This edition will have all of the above, plus:

4-color signature page (With Yanuk's portrait & repro Bok signature)
signed by
Charles de Lint (Introduction)
Jim Pitts (frontipieces for BTGS & SW)
William Lorenzo (Afterword TSS and supplier of interior art)
Bob Garcia (Introduction to SW & Editor/Publisher)
Martin Jukovsky (Memorial)

A sturdier cloth binding

A matching cloth slipcase

Rainbow endpapers

Blue page marker ribbon

JIM PITTS ART FOR

THE FANTASTIC FICTION OF HANNES BOK

LINKS TO MORE AF BOK PAGES

EXCERPTS & REVIEWS

HANNES BOK BIOGRAPHY by Robert Weinberg