The Dragon Master & The Last Castle artist edition

Description from Suntup Website

The Suntup edition of The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle by Jack Vance is presented in three states. The edition measures 6” x 9” and features ten color illustrations by award-winning illustrators Julie Bell and Ted Nasmith, a new introduction by John Vance and a new afterword by Michael Moorcock. The text is set in Amerigo and Swift with the Numbered and Lettered states printed letterpress on Neenah Cotton and mouldmade Arches Text papers by Scott Vile on a Heidelberg cylinder press in Buxton, Maine. Design and typography by award-winning designer Misha Beletsky.

This edition of The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle by Jack Vance pays homage to the classic Ace Double format in which these two novellas were first paired in the 1960s. Reviving the distinctive tête-bêche structure, this volume presents each story as a self-contained book with its own front cover. Readers begin with The Dragon Masters, then rotate the book 180 degrees to find The Last Castle beginning from the opposite end. This format preserves the mirrored, back-to-back presentation of the original Ace Doubles, where two works shared a spine but retained their own front matter and orientation. The shared design language—typography, title pages, and layout—unifies the volume while honoring the structural duality that defined this iconic paperback tradition.

The Artist edition is limited to 500 copies with a dust jacket illustrated by Julie Bell and Ted Nasmith. It is a full cloth binding with a foil blocked front cover. Endsheets are printed with a custom pattern design and the edition is housed in a coated paper covered slipcase. It is printed by offset lithography on 100gsm Munken, and is signed by Julie Bell and Ted Nasmith.

Also check the other states of the book:

Numbered- Lettered edition