Numbered As Sand Or The Stars

Ex Occidente Press Bucharest, 2012 Exposition Internationale (Ex Occidente Press):, Bucharest, 2012. Limited edition. No dust jacket as issued. Limited to 235 numbered copies, and this is the rare alternative cover design, which may have been issued as the lettered edition, because it is marked 'G' in red on the limitation page at the rear of the book. It is a typical Ex Occident production, with elegant typography, and a gorgeous textured velvet cover boards. There is a very slight imperfection, as happens with these handcrafted small press productions; it is slight 'ding' at the lower right of the cover image. and - the real reason for buying it of course - a superlative story by John Howard."Budapest, 1946: a devastated city in a conquered country where hyperinflation is running out of control. In a room high above the ruins a man sits reviewing his life. From his childhood in Transylvania to his activities in Admiral Horthy's Hungary, he recalls the part he played in the secret history of some of the pivotal events of the interwar years. But is he alone? Who - or what - might be helping him to remember? And what are the stories that he, in turn, is told?" Much collected, moody, magnificent. Language: eng Language: eng. Limited Edition.. Hardcover. Fine.