Joe Hill "Horns" Signed Lettered Edition "PC" of only 26 w/Bonus Materials [Very Fine]

“It was something… the way a person’s life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.” — Joe Hill, Horns

Personally Signed by Joe Hill and Magdalena Kaczan. This Signed Lettered Edition is Limited to only 26. 

Suntup Press 2019. Limited to 26 copies for sale, lettered A-Z in Morse code. This is the first North American signed limited edition of Horns.  Signed by Joe Hill and artist Magdalena Kaczan. Measures 6” x 9”, features twelve full-color illustrations by Magdalena Kaczan and includes a new introduction by Joe Hill. This edition is printed letterpress.

This is Lettered "PC" as noted by the Morse Code on the limitation page. 

The lettered edition is limited to 26 copies for sale, lettered A-Z in Morse code and printed letterpress on Rives cotton paper. It is quarter bound in leather with crushed silk boards. A 14-karat gold cross is inset into the cover, with the chain of the cross foil stamped in gold. The edition features a gilded top edge and three custom pitchfork-shaped bands across the leather spine. Endpapers are handmade in India with metallic gold and silver on a base of 100% cotton rag. The book is housed in a handmade rough-sawn pine box with a black velvet-lined bookbed, and is designed to resemble the underside of a treehouse with a trapdoor opening.

A dark fantasy novel originally published in 2010, Horns is the book with which TIME Magazine proclaimed, “Joe Hill has emerged as one of America’s finest horror writers.” Horns follows the story of Ig Parish. After the brutal murder of his girlfriend Merrin Williams, a grief-stricken Ig awakens one morning to find horns growing out of his head. Ig soon discovers the horns hold a mysterious power that forces people to reveal their deepest and darkest secrets to him as he defends his innocence and fights to avenge the death of his one true love.

LETTERED EDITION

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• Limited to 26 copies for sale, lettered A-Z in Morse code.
• Handbound quarter leather binding with boards covered in crushed silk.
• 14-karat gold cross inset into the cover and the chain of the cross is foil-stamped in gold.
• Three custom pitchfork-shaped raised bands across the leather spine.
• Gilded page edges.
• Twelve full-color illustrations by Magdalena Kaczan.
• New introduction by Joe Hill written exclusively for this edition.
• Signed by Joe Hill and Magdalena Kaczan.
• Printed letterpress on Rives cotton paper.
• Handmade black exotic marbled endpapers from India with metallic gold and silver on a base of 100% cotton rag.
• Housed in a handmade rough-sawn pine box with a black velvet-lined bookbed, and designed to resemble the underside of a treehouse with a trapdoor opening. 

THE MORSE CODE BOOKLET

Included with the Lettered edition of Horns is a 12 page hand-stitched booklet featuring Merrin's letter to Ig, presented in Morse code. The front cover is hand-lettered and printed letterpress on Hahnemühle Bugra paper with French flaps.

THE HORNS PROMO KIT

Included with every order of the Lettered edition is this limited promotional artwork kit, showcasing some of the gorgeous illustrations from Magdalena Kaczan. Included is a full-color 6" x 9" print, a 4" x 6" postcard and a deluxe, oversized UV coated 2.5" x 8.5" bookmark, all packed inside a gold metallic printed envelope.

Horns was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “a richly nuanced story. Fire and brimstone have rarely looked this good.” In 2013, the novel was adapted into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe, which made its debut at The Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a theatrical release on October 31, 2014.

Signed by artist Magdalena Kaczan. It is handbound quarter leather binding with boards covered in crushed silk with 14-karat gold cross inset into the cover and the chain of the cross is foil-stamped in gold.

“Artist Magdalena Kaczan’s artwork just about glows on the page. There’s something about her style — dreamy, vulnerable, rippling with texture…” — Joe Hill

About the Author

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Fireman, NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and Horns. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the art of Gabriel Rodriguez.

About the Artist

Magdalena Kaczan is an emerging artist from Krakow, Poland. She studied art at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. Although Lena is not currently working full-time in her chosen profession, she spends a good deal of time living creatively by taking on commissions, such as the cover she created for Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle, and making fan art for friends. Lena draws in ink, pens and fineliners, and then processes the drawings digitally.

About the Publisher

There is a clear distinction between a book that is mass produced, and one that is a finely crafted book. Our Limited and Lettered editions are hand-bound, one at time, and we go to great expense to utilize only the finest materials available. Most of our editions are printed letterpress, which is the printing method perfected by Gutenberg, who used it to produce the first book printed from moveable type in the West, the now-famous Gutenberg Bible.

The mission of our press is to publish finely crafted limited editions, by collaborating with some of today’s leading writers, artists, designers, printers and bookmakers to create an edition that is itself, an art object. By incorporating elements of the story into the design and production of the books, and enclosures, our editions offer a unique reading experience.



About the Edition

This is the first North American signed limited edition of Horns, and it is presented in three states: An Artist Gift edition, a Numbered edition and a Lettered edition. All three measure 6” x 9” and feature twelve full-color illustrations by Magdalena Kaczan. The editions are signed by Joe Hill and Magdalena Kaczan, and all editions include a new introduction by Joe Hill.

This is the Signed Lettered Edition

“I am so pleased to be doing an edition of Horns by Suntup Editions. Their books are remarkable.” — Joe Hill