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Burton, MI: Subterrannean, 2003. first. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Phil Parks. Signed first edition in fine condition. Signed and inscribed on the half title page by the author to a named recipient: To (name) All Good Wishes (signature). Dust jacket is now in new removable protective cover. Yellow cloth covered boards with black print on the spine. Green end papers. This is the deluxe hardcover edition, which was issued unsigned. Profusely illustrated. Subterranean Press hard cover with dust jacket, first edition (stated) 2003, ISBN: 9781931081900, 1283 pages, cover art by Phil Parks. 8vo (6.25"" x 9.25"") Due to this item's price, it will ship with signature confirmation. Each of the more than 30 stories features a full-page black and white illustration commissioned especially for this volume by Tim Truman, Mark A. Nelson, Janet Aulisio, Ron Brown and other fine artists. Contents: Introduction; A Four-Color Fanboy (essay); Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark; The Fortress; And Death His Legacy; The Filthy Pro (essay); The Hero; The Exit to San Breta; The Second Kind of Loneliness; With Morning Comes Mistfall (2nd place, 1974 Hugo Award); The Light of Distant Stars (essay); A Song for Lya (winner, 1975 Hugo); This Tower of Ashes; And Seven Times Never Kill Man (3rd place, 1976 Hugo); The Stone City; Bitterblooms; The Way of Cross and Dragon (winner, 1980 Hugo, Locus); The Heirs of Turtle Castle (essay); The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr; The Ice Dragon; In the Lost Lands; Hybrids and Horrors (essay); Meathouse Man; Remembering Melody; Sandkings (winner, 1980 Hugo, Locus, Nebula); Nightflyers (winner, 1980 Analog, 1981 Locus, 1983 Seiun awards); The Monkey Treatment (winner, 1984 Locus, 2nd place Hugo); The Pear-Shaped Man (winner, 1988 Stoker award); A Taste of Tuf (essay); A Beast for Norn (original version); Guardians (winner, 1982 Locus, 2nd place Hugo); The Siren Song of Hollywood (essay); The Road Less Travelled (Twilight Zone teleplay); DOORWAYS pilot/ first draft (unproduced teleplay); Doing the Wild Card Shuffle (essay); Shell Games; The Journal of Xavier Desmond; The Heart in Conflict (essay) Bat Durston, the Bard, and Me (speech); Under Siege; The Skin Trade (winner, 1989 World Fantasy Award); Unsound Variations (3rd place, 1983 Hugo); The Glass Flower; The Hedge Knight; Portraits of His Children (winner, 1986 Nebula; 2nd place Hugo). Bibliography.