The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories (with the Advanced Reading Copy)
London: Bloomsbury, 2006. 24x15.7cm: 235, [6]pp. First Edition. Pink boards embossed with a floral design over charcoal cloth spine, with titling to spine in black. Black endpapers and a grey ribbon marker. Housed in a charcoal slipcase with floral pattern and titling in black. Introduction by James Sutherland. Cover art by Petra Borner. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings by Charles Vess. Faint rubbing to boards due to a tight fitting slipcase. Fine in a Fine slipcase.
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New York: Bloomsbury, 2006. 23.5x15.2cm: 239, [4]pp. Advanced Reading Copy, in wrappers. Illustrated cover in charcoal, black, and pink. Publisher’s press release, folded and laid-in. Faint rubbing to wrappers. Fine.
Susanna Clarke's The Ladies of Grace Adieu is a spellbinding collection of stories brimming with all the ingredients of good fairy tales: petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates, endless paths in deep, dark woods, and houses that never appear the same way twice. The heroines and heroes who must grapple with these problems include the Duke of Wellington, a conceited Regency clergyman, an eighteenth-century Jewish doctor, and Mary Queen of Scots, as well as beloved figures from Clark's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell including Jonathan Strange himself and the Raven King. Beautifully enhanced with Charles Vess’s line drawings paying homage to the style of the period.
The title story, The Ladies of Grace Adieu, was Clarke’s first published piece and was written for a course she was taking while writing Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. The story was so impressive it was sent to Neil Gaiman and then to Patrick Nielsen Hayden who published it in his anthology Starlight 1, in 1996. The anthology would win the World Fantasy Award the following year.
Price: $250.00
Item #10648