The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano [FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK] 1999 • 1st Print

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano

FIRST EDITION PAPERBACK • FIRST PRINTING [1999] VERTIGO • DC

First printing of this Trade Paperback variant First Edition. 

Book is in excellent condition. 

Like new with mild shelf wear to cover.

 ⚜︎ ABOUT THE BOOK 

⚜︎Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the Final Fantasy game series. 

Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.