• Publication: The Peacock EscritoirePublication Record # 351194
• Author: Mark Valentine
• Date: 2011-02-00
• Publisher: Ex Occidente Press
• Price:
  $200.00^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 236
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The Peacock Escritoire by Santiago Caruso
• Notes: No ISBN or catalog number. Available only in a box set edition. From the publisher website at http://exoccidente.com/peacock.html: "The Peacock Escritoire Box Set contents: i. The Peacock Escritoire volume collection ii. Shards & Plumes: Journal Notes; over 70 single pages with Notes, Unfinished Stories, Journal Entries and more, printed on thick paper; coming in a special made envelope iii. three large postcards iv. an old map of Trebizond v. the Santiago Caruso Portofolio. 11 amazing illustrations done especially for this edition. Paintings printed on deluxe paper, very large format vi. a heavy clothed box with sigil and silver lettering on the spine and the front cover, to hold the book and all the many extras The Peacock Escritoire is a full-colour illustrated sewn hardcover book of 218 pages with dust-jacket, silk ribbon, endpapers and a full-colour frontispiece. Finely illustrated by Santiago Caruso. Collector's edition limited to only 100 hand numbered copies." No price on book. Price, which includes worldwide shipping, from publisher website. Month of publication from publisher website. Publisher website incorrectly lists title of story "Echoes of Saumur" as "Echoes of Saumurz."

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • The Ka of Astarakhan • short story by Mark Valentine
• 20 • The Late Post • short story by Mark Valentine
• 28 • A Revelation of Cormorants • (2010) • short story by Mark Valentine
• 42 • The Amber Cigarette • novelette by Mark Valentine
• 78 • Sime in Samarkand • short story by Mark Valentine
• 97 • Morpheus House • (2009) • short story by Mark Valentine
• 115 • The Antioch Imperial • short story by Mark Valentine
• 124 • A Certain Power • short story by Mark Valentine
• 137 • The Tontine of Thirteen • short story by Mark Valentine
• 150 • The Second Master • (2010) • short story by Mark Valentine
• 171 • The Autumn Keeper • (2009) • short story by Mark Valentine
• 182 • The Days on Castel Rosso • short story by Mark Valentine
• 194 • Echoes of Saumur • short story by Mark Valentine
• 200 • The Return to Trebizond • short story by Mark Valentine
• 228 • The Old Light • short story by Mark Valentine
• 232 • About the Stories (The Peacock Escritoire) • essay by Mark Valentine