Here’s another weird Dragonstairs Swanwick production:
Swanwick, Michael. Cigar Box Faust. Dragonstairs Press, 2019. First separate edition and first edition thus, preceded by the 2003 Tachyon chapbook Cigar Box Faust and Other Miniatures, one of only 40 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy in special cigar box. Here’s the description from the Dragonstairs Press site:
Now you can produce your own performance of Cigar Box Faust. Dragonstairs Press is offering everything you need to mount your own production! The theater (a cigar box), the cast (a cigar in the title role and a cigar cutter as Mephistopheles, the sun, moon, and stars– well, cutouts and glitter), an mp3 file of Swanwick reading the text, and a chapbook of the script (a limited edition, signed by Michael Swanwick and numbered)!
As received, there was a tremendous quantity of loose glitter in the package, which is why it is now safely sealed in the polybag.
I will have precisely one for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.
Tags: Books, Dragonstairs Press, Horror, Michael Swanwick, Science Fiction, small press publishers