Storeys from the Old Hotel

[Worcester Park, Surrey]: Kerosina Books, 1988. First trade edition, one of 1,000 copies (edition of 1276). 299 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket with illustrations by Pete Lion. Signed by the author on the title page. First trade edition, one of 1,000 copies (edition of 1276). 299 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A choice collection of stories by the ever so tricky Gene Wolfe: “it is possible to claim that Wolfe's importance for the field lay in a spongelike ability to assimilate generic models and devices, and in the quality of the transformations he effected upon that material” (SFE). Includes “Westwind”, “A Solar Labyrinth”, “Slaves of Silver” and “A Rubber Bend” (his Nero Wolfe and Sherlock Holmes parodies), and “On the Train” (first published in the New Yorker). Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Winner of the World Fantasy award in 1989.