Magic for Beginners

Overview:

• Title: Magic for Beginners
• Author: Kelly Link
• Year: 2005
• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Price: $111.00
• Pages: [16]+273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: Lull
• Notes:
  • On copyright page:
    • Copyright © 2005 by Kelly Link
    • Limited edition
    • A Jelly Ink book. Jelly Ink is an imprint of Small Beer Press.
    • Illustrations © 2005 by Shelley Jackson.
  • No statement of printing; no numberline
  • Year, month from publisher's website
  • Title page does not state the imprint; just "Small Beer Press"
  • No ISBN
  • Unpriced. Price from Locus1
  • Issued without dust jacket
  • Fiction ends on unnumbered page 273
  • Cover art is uncredited and unsigned
  • "Illustrated by Shelley Jackson" on title page
  • Frontispiece artwork is printed on glossy paper stock
  • Between each story, on a separate page, is a black and white illustration with accompanying caption
  • Issued with a pack of playing cards. The back of each card features the cover art of the trade edition. The face of each card features one of the interior art illustrations
  • Statement of limitation on page [3]:
    Magic for Beginners
    <author's signature>
    Kelly Link
    <artist's signature>
    Illustrated by Shelley Jackson
    This is number <handwritten copy number> of one hundred and fifty copies which are hand-num-
    bered and signed by the author and illustrator and include two tipped-in
    plates: an enlargement of the title story illustration and a color reproduction
    of the trade dustjacket painting by Shelley Jackson which is based on "Lady
    with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci held in The
    Czartoryskich Museum in Krakow.
    
    Printed in May 2005 by Thomson-Shore of Dexter, MI, on 70# Finch
    Opaque Cream White Smooth paper, with 80# Oatmeal Rainbow
    Endpapers, Smyth Sewn in Cobalt Blue Pearl
    Linen Cloth, with a ribbon to keep your place.