Between the Covers

Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Red buckram gilt. Massive volume with typed or computer generated sheets of the text, very heavily hand corrected by an editor for the first American edition. Barker's debut collection of stories for which he was immediately hailed as a new leading voice in horror fiction. Bound in is a memo from the publisher "Regarding These Production Instruments: Clive Barker's Books of Blood I-III" with full notes on what the process was, and how the proofreader determined that the first edition "...Sphere text was loaded with glaring typos and Clive's writing was technically very poor, containing a vast multiplicity of common grammatical errors such as split infinitives, subject/verb disagreement, dangling participles." He also notes that Barker was unfailingly polite in the process and invariably deferred on the corrections, and that the subsequent American editions do not incorporate these corrections. The corrections are very extensive, usually a dozen or so per page with the odd post-it note or other additions to the text. A unique volume that provides insight into the occasionally DIY nature of science fiction publishing.

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