[Berkeley, CA.: Dark Carnival, no date].
Facsimile printing of the original 1980 Viking first edition.
Publication notice sheet laid in.
Also laid in (but not issued with this copy) is an unused Tor bookplate, SIGNED by the author.
Stiff card boards with custom designed dust jacket attached at the flaps.
Very good:
Mild creasing to the lower front corner tip affecting 16 pages, faint creases to the front and rear panel of the mildly soiled dust jacket.
The author evidently granted special permission to reproduce the author's first book.
We have no knowledge of how many copies of this facsimile printing were produced.
"Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star,
doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his
relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows
is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the
novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children's
tales who died at forty-four. Now Thomas and Saxony have come to
France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to
write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may
oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly
welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic
and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended
far beyond the printed page...leaving them with a terrifying task to
undertake."--WorldCat.
Jonathan Carroll's THE LAND OF LAUGHS is listed in
Jones and Newman, Horror: The 100 Best Books #82.
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