GREENBERG, Martin H. [Terry Pratchett; Peter S. Beagle; Jane Yolen; et al].
After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1992.
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First Edition of After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien; Signed by Fifteen Contributors Including Terry Pratchett and Peter S. Beagle
First edition of this celebrated anthology of original fantasy stories written in honor of J.R.R. Tolkien and published for the centenary of his birth in 1992. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, chapter decorations. Boldly signed on the title page by fifteen of the contributors: Terry Pratchett, Dennis L. McKiernan, Patricia A. McKillip, Robert Silverberg, Stephen R. Donaldson, Gregory Benford, Jane Yolen, Poul Anderson, Peter S. Beagle, Karen Anderson, Charles de Lint, Harry Turtledove, Karen Haber, Emma Bull, and Mike Resnick. Eleven of them have signed again at the head of their own stories: Stephen R. Donaldson, Peter S. Beagle, Jane Yolen, Patricia A. McKillip, Charles de Lint, Harry Turtledove, Dennis L. McKiernan, Karen Anderson, Gregory Benford, Karen Haber, and Emma Bull. Jane Yolen has also signed her introduction. The signatures were gathered over nearly two decades, with dates ranging from 1991 to 2010. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the rare wrap-around band. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Introduction by Jane Yolen. Jacket art by Keith Parkinson.
After the King (1992) is an anthology of original fantasy stories written in tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien and published to mark the centenary of his birth in 1892. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg with an introduction by Jane Yolen, it gathers work from many of the leading fantasy and science fiction writers of the age, among them Stephen R. Donaldson, Terry Pratchett, Poul and Karen Anderson, Andre Norton, Peter S. Beagle, and Robert Silverberg, each paying homage to the author whose Lord of the Rings reshaped modern fantasy. It stands as a remarkable gathering of the genre that Tolkien did so much to create.