THE LAND OF LAUGHS By Jonathan Carroll [Berkeley, CA.: Dark Carnival, no date]. Facsimile printing of the original 1980 Viking first edition. Publication notice sheet laid in. Also laid in (but not issued with this copy) is an unused Tor bookplate, SIGNED by the author. Stiff card boards with custom designed dust jacket attached at the flaps. Very good: Mild creasing to the lower front corner tip affecting 16 pages, faint creases to the front and rear panel of the mildly soiled dust jacket. The author evidently granted special permission to reproduce the his first book. We have no knowledge of how many copies of this facsimile printing were produced. "Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner. What he knows is that in his whole life nothing has touched him so deeply as the novels of Marshall France, a reclusive author of fabulous children's tales who died at forty-four. Now Thomas and Saxony have come to France's hometown, the dreamy Midwestern town of Galen, Missouri, to write France's biography. Warned in advance that France's family may oppose them, they're surprised to find France's daughter warmly welcoming instead. But slowly they begin to see that something fantastic and horrible is happening. The magic of Marshall France has extended far beyond the printed page...leaving them with a terrifying task to undertake."--WorldCat. Jonathan Carroll's THE LAND OF LAUGHS is listed in Jones and Newman, Horror: The 100 Best Books #82. AN UNUSUAL EDITION! PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!