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MILLER JR., Walter M.

A Canticle for Leibowitz (Limited Edition)

A Canticle for Leibowitz (Limited Edition)

London: The Folio Society, 2024

Illustrated by LANG, Elliot

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A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr. London: The Folio Society, 2024. Limited edition, limited to 500 copies, this being copy number 457. Quarter-bound in blocked leather, with cloth sides printed and blocked with a design by Elliot Lang. Set in Kristal with Rotunda Veneta as display. 392 pages printing in black and gold ink throughout on Abbey Pure paper. Thirty drop-cap illustrations and an illustrated title page and three part-titles. Frontispiece and 11 full-page colour illustrations, two of which are double-page spreads, printed on Gardapat 13 Kiara paper. Printed endpapers. Ribbon Marker. Gilded book edges. Metallic gold cloth slipcase printed in black with an original design by Elliot Lang. Limitation label printed in black and gold ink on Fedrigoni Marina Conchiglia paper signed by Michael Dirda and Elliot Lang. 9˝ x 61⁄4˝.

A major work of post-apocalyptic science fiction, this beautiful edition of Walter M. Miller Jr’s best-selling A Canticle for Leibowitz is introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda and with evocative, medieval artwork and an afterword by Elliot Lang.

From the Folio Society's website: "Since its first serial publication in a popular sci-fi magazine of the 1950s, A Canticle for Leibowitz has sold over two million copies worldwide and the novel version has never fallen out of print. It was one of the first works of modern science fiction that connected with readers outside the genre fandom and was inspired by Miller’s service during the Second World War – the author participated in bombing the centuries-old Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, a sanctuary that had once housed generations of antique texts. As Michael Dirda’s introduction explains, the three stories in Miller’s epic triptych envision a broken world in which the light of progress brings only darkness, though never quite extinguishes hope. Folio presents this poignant wasteland chronicle signed by both Dirda and illustrator Elliot Lang, in a volume worthy of veneration by the monks of Leibowitz themselves. Lang provides revelatory cover designs for both the gold-cloth slipcase and blocked quarter-leatherbound book, complete with creamy gold-edged Abbey Pure pages. With endpapers depicting sacred pre-war blueprints and illustrations as vivid as stained glass, the book feels like an artefact straight out of Miller’s antique-future world, making this a truly visionary edition of an apocalyptic classic."

This is a near-fine copy with pages clean, bright and tightly bound, and only a small spot of wear to the gild work on the fore edge, as pictured; else truly fine. A beautiful limited edition that quickly went out of print.

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