The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Cloth - Printed on 100# Mohawk Superfine. Bound in suedel luxe cloth, with seven full color illustrations and a map with a cloth covered slipcase. Limited to 300 cloth copies for sale.
$1500.00Leather - Printed on mouldmade Saunders Waterford. Bound in full goatskin leather with the color illustrations and a map enclosed in a cloth traycase with an extra set of unbound prints. Limited to 14 copies for sale.
Published: May 2007
Volume 1 of The Book of the New Sun which includes:
The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
The Urth of the New Sun
and Gene Wolfe's commentary "The Castle of the Otter"
Presented for the first time in a deluxe, illustrated edition.
It features 7 full page, full color illustrations by German artist Alexander Preuss.
The text has been completely reset and thoroughly proofread. The book size is a handsome and agile 8 x 13 inches, a slim, easy to read, and superbly designed volume that is perfect for your favorite chair -- a perfect and subtly accompaniment to Gene Wolfe's hallucinatory prose.
The illustrations are evocative of the time and place of Gene Wolfe's story and are sure to become the most renowned art-works ever published for this series.
