
Before They Are Hanged deluxe
Joe Abercrombie
Publication year
Limitation
Curious King
2024
150
Author signature
Artist
Introduction
Yes
Vance Kovacs
No
List Price
Median Market Value
Recorded Sales
£575
£2,150
2
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. 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. Limitation 26
Deluxe state
Limited to 150 copies only. The numbered edition is 480 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 new “noose” design and three-pass foil stamping on the cover, spine and back.
The tailbands and ribbon will be the same as book 1 and are carrying on the blood spattered topedge. This design has been worked up alongside books 1 and 3 to ensure they flow.
As with the Standard Edition, this book comes will an illustrated endpaper by Vance Kovacs and a further 7 tipped in plates (including a frontispiece) and fold out map.
Housed in a curved mauve cloth slipcase with the noose design foil stamped across all three sides.
This edition is signed by both the author and the artist.