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Black House: A Novel with Paintings by Rick Berry [Limited Edition in Clamshell Signed by Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Rick Berry]
by King, Stephen; Straub, Peter
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald M. Grant, 2002. Rare signed limited edition in matching leather tray case. From limitation page: "This special edition of Black House is signed by authors Stephen King and Peter Straub and artist Rick Berry. It is limited to 1,520 copies. This is copy: 'Publishers Copy'. 'Stephen King, Peter Straub, Rick Berry'". Stated First Edition at copyright page. Illustrations copyright 2002 by Rick Berry. Deep black textured leather boards, silver impressed cover and spine titles, design, fine. Thick heavy stock pages, fine. Haunting pictorial endpapers at front, back. Bind fine; hinges intact. Preserved and protected in matching textured black leather clamshell case w/silver impresssed cover and spine titles, fine. Several vignettes in silver of silhouetted house and golden fly. Interior lined in green velvet. An immaculate copy designed by Rick Berry with interior art that owes as much to Kokoschka as it does to the emergency unit of your local hospital. Many smooth semi-glossy color plates of paintings by Rick Berry. In addition are smaller vignettes throughout. Published 10 minutes after the Space Odyssey year and in the wake of the millennium bug non-event. Sequel to "The Talisman", published by Donald Grant in 1984. In the long-awaited sequel to "The Talisman", retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is drawn back to a parallel universe called The Territories, where he must find the soul strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious devils sheltered within it. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. Large 7 1/2" x 10 1/4" design weighing over five lbs. 628 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Berry, Rick [Paintings]. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Synopsis
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.
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- Title
- Black House: A Novel with Paintings by Rick Berry [Limited Edition in Clamshell Signed by Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Rick Berry]
- Author
- King, Stephen; Straub, Peter
- Illustrator
- Berry, Rick [Paintings]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Donald M. Grant
- Place of Publication
- Hampton Falls, New Hampshire
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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