![]() BOOK DESCRIPTION ![]() Photo of Hannes Bok in his West 109th Street apartment cica 1960s. / 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 As well as numerous sketches unpublished and published.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 Previously unpublished photos of Hannes Bok. Hannes Bok's poem "The Ka of Kor-Sethon" Unpublished mouse sketch by Bok Blue cloth, 448 pages, 4-color dustjacket, plain endpapers printed on Acid-free paper. ![]() 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 FORTHE FANTASTIC FICTION OF HANNES BOK
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