Perdido Street Station by China Miéville - Lettered Edition
This is a pre-order with shipping expected in Q2 2027.
The Lettered Edition is limited to 26 two-volume sets, inscribed A to Z. See all the details of the edition here along with the Collector’s and Deluxe Editions.
China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station brought the New Weird into mainstream consciousness, blending industrial grime, baroque imagination, and unrelenting strangeness in a genre-defying masterpiece. Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award, the novel introduces readers to the richly imagined world of Bas-Lag, where the boundaries between science, magic, and nightmare dissolve.
New Crobuzon, the vast and teeming heart of Bas-Lag, is a city of contradictions—both grotesque and majestic, oppressive yet bursting with restless creativity. In its tangled streets and towering factories, an impossible demand and a rogue scientist’s reckless experiments set a chain of horrors in motion, drawing together a cast of revolutionaries, criminals, artists, and machines to confront an unspeakable threat.
Our thanks to the Folio Society and the author for permission to include a slightly edited version of the afterword originally written for the Folio Society’s limited edition.
LETTERED EDITION:
Limited to 26 two-volume sets inscribed A-Z.
Signed by China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, and Jana Heidersdorf on a tipped in letterpress-printed sheet at the end of the second volume.
Offset printed on Fedrigoni Acquerello 120gsm (80lb) paper by Gomer Press in Wales.
Both volumes are hand-bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in full Harmatan & Oakridge leather in the UK. The binding stages the moment Yagharek meets the consequence of his choice-theft—the removal of his wings. One board of each volume carries a wing built from three leather inlays that are extensively blind stamped; the facing board holds only its “memory,” a wing rendered in blind stamping alone. Drops of blood from the sundering—rendered in red pigment—are scattered across the entire binding. Binding design by Tony Geer and Allie Oldfield.
Title, author and artist foil stamped on spines.
Custom hand-marbled endpapers by Daniela Prina.
Top edges of both volumes gilt.
29 full colour illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf.
The two volumes are housed in a single hinged enclosure handmade by Ludlow Bookbinders, conceived so a pair of wings can be displayed at once. Enclosure design by Tony Geer and Ludlow Boookbinders.
Trim size of 170mm by 240mm (6.7in by 9.5in).
356 pages for volume one and 276 pages for volume two, including front and back matter.