Two New Titles Announced By Centipede Press

NIGHT AND THE CITY by Gerald Kersh (Limited Edition Hardcover)

Night and the City: One of the greatest noir novels ever published, Gerald Kersh’s stark and unrelenting Night and the City is as bleak an experience as you will ever encounter. The protagonist of the novel is the morally empty Harry Fabian, who is determined to become the top wrestling promoter in London. During the course of the novel Fabian is embroiled in various unscrupulous money-making ventures. All those around him are treated as a means to an end without exception. However, while his acts of pimping, blackmail and deception are successful, the proceeds of crime soon slip from his hands. The novel has a printed cloth front board with a design by Frank Chigas, an interior photograph by Jeff Hersch, and a lengthy biographical introduction by renowned editor Paul Duncan.

Limited to 200 copies.
Introduction by Paul Duncan.
Old hardcover editions and movie posters of Night and the City reprinted in color.
Ribbon marker, head and tail bands and printed cloth panel.

Edition specifics: These titles are limited to 200 copies for sale, but they are not signed or numbered. The books are bound in full cloth, with head and tail bands and ribbon markers.

 

LONDON STORIES by Gerald Kersh (Limited Edition Hardcover)

With twenty-five stories, this collection of noir fiction and slice-of-life stories presents a side of Kersh rarely seen. Included is one of Kersh’s finest tales, The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy and a fine science fiction tale, This Stuff is Like Cigarette Ash. Also included is the rare Blast, a story never before reprinted in book format. This book has a printed cloth front panel with a design by Frank Chigas, an interior photograph by Jeff Hersch, and a brief introduction by Paul Duncan. Most of the stories in here have been out of print for decades.

Edition specifics: These titles are limited to 200 copies for sale, but they are not signed or numbered. The books are bound in full cloth, with head and tail bands and ribbon markers.