THE UNCERTAINTY OF ALL EARTHY THINGS.
North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2025. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth heavily decorated in gold and white with an image of a thre--faced king on front & rear panels, gilt lettering on front panel & spine, black endpapers, gold silk ribbon bookmark. 226 pp. 350 copies printed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #314337
¶ The new Tartarus Press edition of THE UNCERTAINTY OF ALL EARTHLY THINGS, a very rare collection of tales originally published by Zagava in 2018 and long out of print. This new edition includes all of the short stories in the original volume, and adds nine briefer stories or vignettes written around the same time:
‘To the Eternal One’, ‘Stained Medium’, ‘The Key to Jerusalem’, ‘Bellman’s Map’, ‘Listening to Stonehenge’, ‘Hark to the Rooks’, ‘Goat Songs’, ‘Mr Bel’s Shop’, ‘Zabulo’, ‘The Secret Characters’, ‘In Cypress Shades’, ‘The Mask of the Dead Mammilius’, ‘Yes, I Knew the Venusian Commodore’, ‘Qx’, ‘The Scarlet Door’, ‘The Clerks of the Invisible’, ‘Vain Shadows Flee’, ‘The Man Who Made the Yellow God’, ‘The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things’, ‘Moss Queen’, ‘As Blank As the Days Yet To Be’, ‘Acknowledgements’.
Price (CAD): $75.00