Illustrated by Doug Bell
Afterword by the author
China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station comes to life in this Folio limited edition with just 500 copies available. Crafted with the author’s close involvement, this ultimate edition features an exclusive afterword by China and striking illustrations by Doug Bell.
Editor’s Note
- James Rose, Editor
Enter New Crobuzon: a city filled with science, steampunk and slake-moths. This breathtaking dive into China Miéville's haunting cityscape is vividly depicted by Doug Bell's immersive scratchboard-effect art and features an exclusive new afterword by the author.
With a host of characters as intricate as the city itself, Perdido Street Station is the ultimate steampunk novel and one that holds the reader gripped from its opening pages to its dramatic conclusion. No wonder it won the Arthur C. Clarke award and continues to hold the baton for Weird literature.
Limited to 500 copies
Bound in screen-printed and blocked canvas cloth
Set in Haarlemmer with Evanston Tavern as display
704 pages
Printed in black and metallic copper ink on Munken Pure paper
8 black & white integrated chapter opening illustrations
12 full-page colour illustrations printed on Gardapat Ivory paper
Printed map endpapers
Copper foiled top book edge
Black ribbon marker
Limitation label printed in copper metallic ink and signed by the author and the artist
Presented in a clamshell covered in paper which has been silver cold-foiled, printed, laminated and over-blocked in translucent foil with a design by the artist
Printed in Italy
‘Miéville is gifted with an incomparable visionary imagination.’
- Ursula K. LeGuin
In the sprawling, chaotic city of New Crobuzon, where magic and machinery intertwine, a dangerous experiment unleashes a nightmare that threatens to consume everything. Isaac, a rogue scientist, unwittingly sets a monstrous force loose and must rally an unlikely band of outcasts to confront it. As the city teeters on the brink of destruction, the battle delves into the darkest corners of human ambition and the eerie beauty of the bizarre.
China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station is a spellbinding journey into a world teeming with grotesque wonders, savage horrors and the relentless pulse of revolution.
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