The Last Argument of Kings deluxe numbered

9.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

9.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

9.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.

Deluxe numbered state

Limited to 150 copies only. The numbered edition is 560 pages printed letterpress two colours on Omnia Natural 120gsm paper by Pat Randle and Ellen Bills at Nomad Press.

Bound in a matching blue goatskin and handbound by the artisan’s at Ludlow’s Bookbinders and sporting a Crown and Sceptre design with three-pass foil stamping on the cover, spine and back.

The tailbands and ribbon will be the same as book 1 and 2 and we’re carrying on the blood spattered topedge as it just feels right. This design has been worked up alongside the first 2 to ensure they flow.

As with the Standard Edition, this book comes will an illustrated endpaper Greg Manchess and a further 7 tipped in plates (including a frontispiece).

Housed in a curved mauve cloth slipcase with the Crown and Sceptre design foil stamped across all three sides.

This book comes with rights to Best Served Cold and any future Abercrombie works we take on following this release.

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

The other edition: Standard - Lettered