Summer Sketches by Dan Simmons [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1992 • Lord John Press

Summer Sketches by Dan Simmons

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1992] LORD JOHN PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket is in very nice shape, clean and crisp with light wear and publishers sticker on rear.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector. 

Book itself is absolutely mint; pristine gilded red cloth boards.

Looks and reads like new!

Winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Locus Award, Dan Simmons has become one of the preeminent authors in the fields of both science fiction and horror.

Since the publication of his fist book, Song of Kali, he has dazzled readers with an unbroken string of phenomenal novels and breathtaking short stories, including Carrion Comfort, Summer of Night, Hyperion, and the just-published epic, Children of the Night.

But before Song of Kali, before Summer of Night, before Phases of Gravity and Children of the Night, there was Summer Sketches-the notebook Dan Simmons carried with him on his travels, recording the sights and impressions that later made their way into his books.

From his stay in Calcutta, which inspired the nightmarish Kali, to his tour of Romania, which led to Children of the Night and the modern-day return of Dracula, his notebook was the repository for his ideas, his thoughts and experiences, and his sketches, all of which he would later draw on to enhance his writing.

These Summer Sketches served as a blueprint for the writing career that followed and their publication in book form allows readers a rare opportunity to view the creative process from its infancy, as an observation or drawing, to its final maturation, in the form of an excerpt from the finished novel. Additionally, Dan Simmons has written a long introduction placing them in perspective both historically and artistically, and for each section.