Viriconium Nights (Signed first edition)

1985, signed and dedicated by M John Harrison

Author

M John Harrison

Publisher

Victor Gollancz, London, 1985

Viriconium Nights (Signed first edition)

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 158pp.

Signed and dedicated by M John Harrison to the title page. He has first signed over his printed name, and then added the dedication "To Di & Mike, FantasyCon 86, M John Harrison".

From the dustwrapper, "Viriconium is a city of the imagination, a place in which the familiar and the utterly strange mingle together. Everything in Viriconium is subject to change, even its name: in one story it is Vriko; in another Uroconium. Sometimes its inhabitants' pursuits are relatively conventional, as in "The Lamia and Lord Cromis", where a hero must fulfil his destiny by destroying a Beast, re-enacting a conflict a hundred generations old. Other tales—such as "Strange Great Sins", in which a sin-eater must lift the burden of sin from a dead girl's soul—create their own, wholly original world. M. John Harrison is a writer of resonant and individual imagination, whose stories, written in prose of unusual beauty and precision, offer unique pleasures."

Condition

Very good condition. There is a little tanning and very light wear to the wrapper's edges but it has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve. The book has clean pages and secure binding.