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London, Black Spring Press, 2007, 340,(4) pag., tipped-in photographic frontispiece under tissue-guard by Peter Greenhalf after Julia Margaret Cameron, 1 plate ("Balaam reproved by his ass"), design and typesetting by Phil Baines, handbound in original grained full black morocco with silver lettering by John Temple (Bodmin, Cornwall), decorative endpapers, as issued in original two-tone cloth slipcase, small quarto. = Luxury full leather 'Collectors Edition' limited to only 75 copies, numbered and signed by the author and enriched with a frontispiece, signed by the author on October 5th, 2007 in London. With the original certificate of authenticity printed on name. A regular edition of 650 copies remained unisgned and was bound in two-tone full cloth. Cave's debut novel is the macabre story of Euchrid Eucrow, who, growing up the result of inbreeeding in a strange religious sect and terrorised by his monstrous parents, finally explodes in an act of delusional psychosis.