Full Throttle Joe Hill Subterranean Press SIGNED Dave McKean Association Copy!

Description: For your consideration is a signed limited edition of "Full Throttle" by Joe Hill illustrated by Dave McKean and published by Subterranean Press in 2020. This is copy #498 of 750 hand numbered slipcased copies signed by both Joe Hill and Dave McKean. This copy is special in that I purchased it from the library of the famous author and Stephen King biographer George Beahm, who was kind enough to write me a letter of provenance stating so. This auction will include the clothbound hardcover, the dust jacket in an archival sleeve, the clothbound slipcase and the signed letter from George Beahm with original envelope. Please see all photos to verify edition and condition. Please see my other listings for more rare and collectible books. About George Beahm: "George Beahm is an American author best known for the Stephen King Companion which he first published in 1989 and has updated in 1995 and 2015. He has published thirty books on pop culture icons and written more literary companions than any other author." From the publisher of Full Throttle: "About the Book: The book you are holding is Joe Hills first short story collection since 2005s 20thCentury Ghosts. Its been a long time between volumes, but the wait is finally over. Full Throttle is quite simply a stunning collection, filled to overflowing with wonders, terrors, and pure narrative magic. It is the work of a profoundly gifted writer who has come fullyand memorablyinto his own. Full Throttle contains thirteen stories and novellas, along with extensive story notes and an illuminating introduction that explores the various influences that have shaped its author's life and work. The stories themselves encompass an impressive assortment of settings, ideas, and emotions. Each story, without exception, is a meticulously crafted gem. Many of these stories concern journeyssome of them brief, some more extensivethat lead to unexpected, frequently lethal destinations. In Wolverton Station, an American executive boards a British train and finds himself faced with impossiblebut very realhorrors. Faun takes its privileged protagonists through a little door that connects our world to. . . somewhere else. Late Returns, a gently affecting story with just a touch of Jack Finney, offers a fictional meditation on time, mortality, and the enduring importance of books. Throttle, the first of two notable collaborations, tells of an imperiled outlaw biker gang and offers a brilliant riff on the Richard Matheson classic, Duel. A second collaboration, "In The Tall Grass," follows a brother and sister off a lonely state highway and into the high weeds of an occult wilderness, where time and space have come apart, and only the mad can survive. In the closing story, You Are Released, a plane bound for Boston takes an abrupt detour through the geopolitical horrors of our age. Taken both individually and together, these stories show us a writer in full, mature command of his considerable gifts. Full Throttle is, of course, a dark, unsettling book, but it is also a good deal more. Each story is filled with grace notes. Each is marked by compassion, empathy, and an underlying decency that lends an emotional weight to every page. These stories may have been a long time coming, butlike their authortheyre here to stay. Full Throttle is a gift to Joe Hills many readers, and a treasure trove of story worth returning to over and over again. Limited: 750 signed numbered hardcover copies, in slipcase"

Price: 380 USD

Location: Napa, California

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