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VG matching three-volume set. All have mild edgewear, small sticker-pull, mild creasing to spines, store-stamps to front fly pages, otherwise nice copies, very clean throughout. All have cover art by Gino D'Achille.

Number of books: 3 books in total.

Octavo, three volumes, boards. First hardcover editions. Complete "The Book of the Beast" series comprising THE ORPHAN (1980), THE CAPTIVE (1981) and THE BEAST (1982). "All three novels comprise an intriguingly conceived bildungsroman in which the growth from innocence to experience and notions of what it means to be human are explored from a provocative nonhuman viewpoint (which itself is becoming increasingly humanized). THE ORPHAN, in particular, is beautifully written, its lyrical prose and poetic imagery comparable to that of Ray Bradbury's short fiction" (Stefan Dziemianowicz). Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror 6-346. Barron, ed., Horror Literature 4-279. A fine set in fine dust jackets. (#173333)

The Orphan, The Captive, and The Beast by Robert Stallman Founders Copies (3 Unique Copies) Tight bright beautiful copies. Three-Quarter Green Morocco. 3 Unique Vols. Unique Founder's Copies. Private Press, Limited. (1989, 1989, 1990). The first of two leather-bound states of the first hardcover edition. These unique copies of THE BOOK OF THE BEAST TRILOGY are ""founder's"" copies. (The other leather-bound state of each of these titles was LATER bound in leather for presentation to the author's widow, with a different device stamped in gilt on its spine.) Each of these volumes bound-up from the first sheets supplied to the publisher from the printer. Specially bound for the founder of Kinnell Publications Limited, in three-quarter green Morocco (goat skin) with gold lettering on a black Morocco lettering piece, gold stamping, raised bands, and top and fore-edge gilt. These unique copies, AND THESE COPIES ONLY, have a colophon produced by Kinnell. These copies, then, are each the first copy of the first hardcover edition, each in a unique handsome binding. With a signed letter of provenance from Kinnell's founder, A.E. Cunningham.