London: Gollancz: 1989

8vo, pp. 267. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY MOORCOCK TO SECKER AND WARBURG EDITOR JOHN BLACKWELL AND HIS WIFE: ‘To John & Pam -- thanks for coming! Love Mike 16.12.89’. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED TO TITLE PAGE. A collection of short stories and non-fiction pieces, including a profile of his friend Andrea Dworkin, whose novel Mercy is dedicated to Moorcock.

John Blackwell [1937-1997] joined Secker and Warburg in the late 1960s, when the imprint was still an independent company run by Fredric Warburg himself. He was a constant presence through the company's innumerable corporate takeovers, mergers and changes of managing director. He was Moorcock’s editor at Secker and Warburg, where much of his work was published. As well as Moorcock, Blackwell was literary midwife to Secker luminaries J. M. Coetzee, Malcolm Bradbury, John Banville, Tom McGuane, Tom Sharpe and Louis de Bernieres, among many others.

A fine copy.