Further details have been teased of Liu's The Three-Body Problem (Sept. 8th rel.). In precis, a 1,344-page vol., w. three B&W title page spreads and 15 colour illos., an introduction previously unpublished in English, bookplate signed by Liu and Griffin, price $780 USD.
https://www.polygon.com/3-body-problem-illustrated-exclusive/
Coming 20th October as part of the Christmas Coll., Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese Ghost Stories ill. by Yuko Shimizu and w. a new introduction by Yoko Ogawa (200 pp.).
Pages and prices for the upcoming The Wasp Factory LE have gone live.
Qtr.-bound in blocked leather w. buckram sides blocked and overprinted w. a design by the artist. Clamshell box covered in gold blocked cloth w. an inset paper label printed w. an illustration by the artist. Lined in blocked metallic blue and metallic mustard paper. Gun-metal foiled book edges (a.e.g.), printed in black and gold ink, printed end-papers, ribbon marker, and limitation label signed by the artist.
6 double-page colour illustrations, black & white title page illustration, and 5 black & white tailpiece illustrations.
8¾ × 5½ inches (22.2 × 14 cm)
£350 | £405 ROW | $550 USD | $700 CAD
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-wasp-factory-limited-edition
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/the-wasp-factory-limited-edition
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-wasp-factory-limited-edition
https://www.foliosociety.com/ca/the-wasp-factory-limited-edition
At the start of July, I found a copy online w. some wear to the spine gilding† at a—relatively—superb price (£150) from a small bookseller in Skipton, West Riding of Yorkshire and purchased it immediately, only to find it had alas sold hours before through their AbeBooks listing at a higher price along with their companion listing for Mort, tho’ that had a somewhat sunned spine.
Two British Heart Foundation charity eBay auctions then appeared mid-month, w. Small Gods’ listing hovering near the £140-mark many days before its end, so on a whim I made an offer upon one of the madly-priced sealed eBay copies, not expecting it to be taken seriously. It was. And so, for the princely sum of £153.17 from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent: Small Gods.
A decade late, Mort has his companion.
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† The velveteen Pratchetts do seem deuced prone to it, Small Gods especially.
The Autumn Collection, 2026, launching 15th September will be as follows:
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory, SE | £70
Agatha Christie, Selected Short Stories | £55
Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | £80
Stephen King, Carrie | £70
Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain | £55
Haruki Murakami, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland | £95
Johanna Spyri, Heidi | £60
The Odyssey's first printing is now sitting at 150 copies, having leap-frogged, but only just, The Iliad's first printing on 155 copies.
Not my wheelhouse this one, but any guesses here? ... Three Body Problem?
The name of the image: TBPL-limited-edition-gated-content.jpg
The first teaser video has been released for The Wasp Factory:
Freshly announced, w. very little details beyond ill. by Darren Hopes.
Your world may be in tatters, but there is the occasional small joy to be found.
Stumbled over a copy of Zamyatin's We publ. in the Spring Coll. 2018, a volume I had long given up on as beyond me, locally for ~£108. The extreme pearlescence of the paper took me by surprise; depending on the angle it is either a silver-grey, a grey-green, or a pink-grey.†
† According to LibraryThing, it is bound in Surbalin Perleffekt, but that is the only mention I have found of the paper as the binding choice.
Pages and prices for the upcoming Moby-Dick LE have gone live, tho' publ. details are yet to be appended.
Bound in blocked full-grain cowhide leather, w. an inset leather white whale label. Housed in a clamshell case w. a blocked leather inset label, lined in Suedel Alaska cloth.
11½ inches × 8 inches (29.2 × 20.3 cm)
£530 | £610 ROW | $750 USD | $1,060 CAD
https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/moby-dick-limited-edition
https://www.foliosociety.com/row/moby-dick-limited-edition