Centipede Press: Luxurious Limited Editions of the Tems, Farris, Kuttner
Jeff VanderMeer • October 20th, 2010 @ 8:42 pm • Book Reviews
Centipede Press continues to put out beautiful editions, four of which just arrived in the mail: In Concert: The Collected Speculative Fiction, Steve Rasnic Tem & Melanie Tem, Dragonfly by John Farris, Sacrifice by John Farris, Masters of the Weird Tale: Henry Kuttner
Some additional photos of the lovely detail of these books below…
Oh, snap! Steampunk Reloaded just arrived today. (We’re headed off soon to Capclave so will mail contributor copies after we get back.)
October 20, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Kuttner rules!
October 20, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Very cool…. are there any reviewer copies of steampunk reloaded kicking around Tachyon books do you know…
October 21, 2010 at 9:12 am
about 125 went out in ARC form. depends on what yer reviewing for. :)
October 22, 2010 at 7:00 am
A *Salvador DalÃ* wraparound cover of In Concert?
Colour me surprised: it is my understanding that the
Dalà Foundation is not exactly — check out the
Times Online article of June 6, 2010 — easy to deal with, to put it mildly.
I certainly hope that Centipede Press have gotten their permission: this is a foundation that stops Hollywood from making a major movie about DalÃ’s life, after all.
October 22, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Ooh. I do love the Tems.
October 24, 2010 at 1:07 pm
The Centipede Press edition of “The Deadly Percheron” by John Franklin Bardin has a painting by Dali on the cover as well. I Haven’t gotten around to reading my copy of that one yet, though it looks interesting.
October 24, 2010 at 3:23 pm
I was quite surprised as well. I wasn’t part of the negotiations for the Dali, the Max Ernst, or the Chagall rights–that was all Jerad at Centipede, of course, but it is my understanding through him that the various foundations involved are a bit more reasonable when it comes to limited editions of a few hundred copies primarily of interest to a small, scholarly or somewhat scholarly audience. I doubt permission could have been obtained for a mass edition from a major house for any remotely reasonable fee.
Steve Tem
October 24, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Also, these are simple reproductions–no commentary on Dali at all.
October 25, 2010 at 10:45 am
Thanks for the info, Steve!