Katabasis SIGNED FIRST EDITION with SPRAYED EDGES, Bookmark, and Sticker
New York: Harper Voyager, 2025.
First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Signed by R. F. Kuang in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 3/8" X 6 3/8". 541pp, plus maps. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket, featuring artwork by Patrick Arrasmith. Bound in black paper over boards, featuring illustration from front in deep yellow to upper board, with spine lettered in kind. Elaborated stencilled edges of text block, featuring "HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE" to fore-edge. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. This signed first edition of the newest book from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface includes publisher-issued Katabasis bookmark and "Welcome to Hell" sticker.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:
The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld
Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.
That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.
Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….
Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.
With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.
But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom. (Publisher). Very good + / Very good +. Item #17075
ISBN: 9780063021471
Price: $75.00