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THE PEACOCK ESCRITOIRE by Mark Valentine Illustrations: Santiago Caruso Publication Date: February 2011 ISBN: N/A Details about the book: sewn hardcover with dust-jacket printed on heavy cardboard paper, cloth boards, gold folio, silk ribbon, end papers and full-color frontispiece. SOLD OUT! The Peacock Escritoire is less a simple gathering of fine stories and more of an homage to the many different copes, dalmatics and mosaics of the Old World. Think about it as a fabulous wayward Exposition Internationale catalogue of epiphanies, wonders, sacred mysteries and veiled heresies. If St. Petersburg had survived civil war and become an international city where trafficking in holy relics drew certain powers in; if the soothsayers of Prague saw the truth in the fortunes of a young street artist; if the author of Dr Saprophyte knew what his friends thought of his books; if a dream museum released its dreams; if a dying Russian futurist knew more than he could say; if an Alexandrian jasper held the clue to serpentine secrets; if a stranger returned a Judas coin; all these possibilities and more are to be found in the latest collection of short stories by Mark Valentine. Seven fantastic new stories and six published but hard to find, they follow the admired work in his previous collections, The Nightfarers and The Mascarons of the Late Empire & Other Studies. Contents The Ka of Astarakhan The Late Post A Revelation of Cormorants The Amber Cigarette Sime in Samarkand Morpheus House The Antioch Imperial A Certain Power The Tontine of Thirteen The Second Master The Autumn Keeper The Days on Castel Rosso Echoes of Saumurz The Return to Trebizond The Old Light The Peacock Escritoire Box Set contents: i. The Peacock Escritoire volume collection ii. Shards & Plumes: Journal Notes; over 70 single pages with Notes, Unfinished Stories, Journal Entries and more, printed on thick paper; coming in a special made envelope iii. three large postcards iv. an old map of Trebizond v. the Santiago Caruso Portofolio. 11 amazing illustrations done especially for this edition. Paintings printed on deluxe paper, very large format vi. a heavy clothed box with sigil and silver lettering on the spine and the front cover, to hold the book and all the many extras Other Ex Occidente Titles by Mark Valentine The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales The Mascarons of the Late Empire & Other Studies The Nightfarers |
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