Library Addition: Signed Edition of Horror: 100 Best Books

This is another book I bought in the Cold Tonnage 40% off sale.

Jones, Stephen and Newman, Kim. Horror: 100 Best Books. Xanadu Publications, Ltd., 1988. First edition hardback, #214 of 300 numbered copies signed by both the editors and almost every living one of the 100 (!) contributors, including Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Basil Copper, Karl Edward Wagner, Jack Williamson, etc. etc etc. (though not by Stephen King), a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. Bought for £30 off Cold Tonnage, marked down from £50.

Horror 100 LTD

I tried to take pictures of the signatures on the endpapers, with varying results. Click to embiggen:

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I already had the trade edition, but the limited’s binding is quite different from the trade edition, as the picture below illustrates:

Horror 100 Both

(Ignore the grid lines, which are a scanner artifact.)

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