Details
Status in production
Release Date 2025
Limitation 24 copies
Size 16 × 24 cm
ISBN 978-3-949341-91-5
Edition lettered edition
Workmanship Thread-stitched hardcover, beautifully bound in finely illustrated fabric, this edition features hand-marbled endpapers, head- and tailband, a silk ribbon marker, and is housed in a striking black clamshell box with a die-cut window and violet edges. The inner spine is lined with matching marbled paper.
Content
“The tales in this collection come from a different place: from a love of dead words and dust, of sun-faded photographs and the smell of old books. They come from the joy of exploring the works and thoughts and worlds of all those long-dead others before us, the populations of that foreign country where, as L.P. Hartley so perfectly observed, ‘…they do things differently…’. But to delve into their remnants, to fire them again with new passion—is like reanimating ashes, a sort of philologic necromancy. So many former ways of writing, thinking, speaking, singing, loving, being, may be lost to the world, transient as sunset, but I believe that something of their spirit can be stirred again.”
– Avalon Brantley