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Before They Are Hanged standard

Joe Abercrombie

Before They Are Hanged standard

Published by

Curious King

2024

500

List Price

£215

Limitation

Market Value

£320

January 16, 2025

Artist

Vance Kovacs

Introduction by

No

Last recorded sale

£315

August 9, 2024

Value Pages

Before They Are Hanged standard

Bibliography

5.a Standard: Black buckram cloth with two hit foil stamping to the cover and rounded spine, tailband and coloured ribbon. Printed letterpress two colours (black and blue) on Omnia Natural 120gsm paper. Only state with a dustjacket. Limitation 500

5.b Deluxe: Blue goatskin binding handbound by the artisan’s at Ludlow’s Bookbinders. Three-pass foil stamping on the cover, spine and back. Printed letterpress two colours (black and blue) on Omnia Natural 120gsm paper. Limitation 150

5.c Lettered: Harmatan black goat with blue leather onlays on the front, back and spine with three colours of foil stamping. It includes 4 raised bands, rounded spine, coloured headbands and all 3 edges gilded gold.


Standard state


Limited to 500 copies only, the standard edition is 480 pages, printed letterpress two colours (black and blue) on Omnia Natural 120gsm by Pat Randle and Ellen Bills from Nomad Letterpress on their Heidelberg Windmill Press.

This is the only version that comes with Vance’s incredible dustjacket of Sand dan Glokta, and his three practicals.

It is bound in black buckram cloth with two hit foil stamping to the cover and spine, with rounded spine, tailband and coloured ribbon.

The endpaper is another landscape illustration by Vance Kovacs, which will depict the “other side” and the mythical Glustrod. There will be another 7 colour images within the book, 6 interior images and 1 frontispiece.

The book is protected by a black buckram slipcase with unique design foil stamped onto the cover side.


This edition is signed by both the author and the artist.



The other edition: Deluxe - Lettered


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