Creating rare, handcrafted letterpress books at Pegana Press since 2009.
The Repairer of Reputations
From The King In Yellow By Robert W. Chambers with Introduction by Robert Silverberg
The King in Yellow is considered by many to be the greatest single book of weird fantasy written between the death of Poe and the rise of Lovecraft.
Of the stories in that masterpiece, the long novella The Repairer of Reputations stands out with a singularly haunting power of terrible descent into the minds distorted by reading The King in Yellow.
With a newly commissioned pen and ink frontispiece by award winning artist Gary Gianni.
We are also honored that Mr. Robert Silverberg has written a new introduction for this edition.
Color illustrations throughout by German painter, graphic artist and writer Michael Hutter.
Miniature Decorations by Jacob Blanchet.
Letterpress printed on a Vandercook SP15 press using hand-set historic Goudy Thirty type printed on Citrine Vellum textured paper. The type was then distributed and will not be reprinted.
This book will be hand-bound in a dark blue cloth with front pastedown of The King in Yellow by Michael Hutter.
There are 35 Limited, numbered editions printed.
There are 30 copies, signed by Robert Silverberg, Gary Gianni, Michael Hutter, and Jacob Blanchet.
ONLY 5 SIGNED COPIES LEFT.
"Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
dim Carcosa...
The Repairer of Reputations
Collector of the Port
A strange tale of the land and the sea, and terrestrial horrors; from a Master of the Bizarre.
…Lee bent over the cliff's brink. Far down into the clear water he followed the outline of the cliff. Under it a shadowy shape floated, a monstrous shark, rubbing the rock softly as if in greeting...The Collector of the Port had returned...
Letterpress printed on pale blue French laid paper and sewn into sea-green and gold bark paper covers from Nepal with Londonderry Jonquil linen thread as a chapbook. Strictly limited to 55 numbered copies.
Newly commissioned frontispiece illustration from the legendary Robert H. Knox.
Letterpress Chapbook with Sea-Green and Gold Wraps
The King in Yellow Broadside
Cassilda’s Song by Robert W. Chambers
A song to drive you mad.
From Robert W. Chambers presented in a limited edition broadside. The poem is letterpress printed on heavy French paper with digitally reproduced original art by the author.
7" x 15" Suitable for framing.
Please note, broadsides cannot be shipped media mail, but when purchased with books or chapbooks, media mail rates will apply.
(58 copies only)
$75