11-478), "A Writer Until the End" by Janie Camp Hjortsberg (479-487), and "Afterlife" (unpaginated), a one-page poem by William Hjortsberg. Signed by artists Ricardo Martinez and Alessandro Boni, Janie Camp Hjortsberg, with fascimile signature of author. 9-307), "Alessandro Boni Artwork Gallery" (316-326), "Afterward" by William Hjortsberg (327-334), "Letter from Stephen King" (335-336), "Gatz" by Thomas McGuane (337-340), and "Remembering Gatz" by Russell Chatham. Each signed on special flyleaf page by the artist(s) and Janie Camp Hjortsberg, the author's widow, with fascimile signature of the author (1941-2017), and "signatures" from the book's fictional characters. Black cloth slipcase with red head and tail, cream titles with artwork to spine. Dramatic red and black artwork on endpapers, with red ribbons. Black cloth boards with embossed artwork in blind metallic red titles to spines. 343 (Falling Angel), 484 (Angel's Inferno). Ricardo Martinez, Alessandro Boni (illustrator).
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