First published in the journal Russkaya Mysl (Russian Thought) in December 1899, Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog” is widely regarded as one of the greatest short stories ever written — a work that has shaped the art of the short story itself.

In the sun-drenched resort town of Yalta, a cynical and restless Moscow banker strikes up a flirtation with a young married woman walking her small white dog along the seafront. What begins as a casual holiday affair — one of many for him — deepens into something neither expected: a bond that is quiet, inconvenient, and inescapable.

Chekhov traces the slow unraveling of his characters’ assumptions about themselves with extraordinary delicacy, building not toward resolution but toward the recognition that real life, with all its difficulty, has only just begun.

About The Edition

Our edition of “The Lady with the Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov is presented as part of our Short Story series in a single state of four hundred unnumbered copies with no rights attached. The edition measures 6½ × 9½ inches and features a wood engraving by Royal Academician Anne Desmet. The text is taken from Rosamund Bartlett’s translation, chosen for its fidelity to Chekhov’s language and tone.

It is designed by Scott Vile and printed letterpress on his Heidelberg Cylinder in Buxton, Maine on mouldmade Hahnemühle Biblio. The wood engraving is printed from the original block and the typeface is Electra. A second color appears on the title page and the opening initial, requiring additional passes through the press. The volume is 28 pages and is hand-sewn into a Hahnemühle Bugra wrapper with flaps by Nicoline Meyer in Hudson, New York and features a letterpress printed cover label. It is signed by the translator, artist and printer.

A Note on the Typography

The text is set in Electra, a serif typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins and released by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1935. Dwiggins described the design as a “modern roman type letter” with “personality,” avoiding direct revival of any historical model. He chose the name Electra to suggest electricity and crisp modernity. After a slow development process, Electra became a popular book typeface in American printing.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered one of the greatest writers of the modern era. He began his career writing comic sketches for humour magazines while studying medicine in Moscow, and went on to produce some of the most celebrated works in both forms, including the plays The Seagull, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, and dozens of stories that transformed the genre. He wrote “The Lady with the Little Dog” in 1899, five years before his death, while suffering from tuberculosis in the seaside town of Yalta, on the coast of the Black Sea — the very setting in which his two lovers meet. He died at forty-four in Badenweiler, Germany.

The Passage by Justin Cronin. Weighing in at 840 pages, this is one of the largest books we’ve ever published. François Vaillancourt provided stunning full-color wrap-around artwork for the dust jacket along with twelve black and white illustrations for the interior, making this special edition a true work of art.

Retail Price: $195
Publication Date: Spring 2027
Page Count: 840 pages
Status: Forthcoming

Special Features:
• Full-color wrap-around artwork by François Vaillancourt
• Twelve black and white interior illustrations by François Vaillancourt
• Offset printed on an acid-free archival quality paper stock
• A fine binding featuring a distinctive material
• Hot foil stamping on the front cover and spine
• Smyth-sewn to create a more durable binding
• Twine head and tail bands
• High-quality endpapers
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Custom-made slipcase stamped with hot foil and featuring a unique die-cut window
• Limited to 750 copies signed by Justin Cronin and François Vaillancourt

About the Book:
Stephen King says The Passage “has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve.”

IT HAPPENED FAST. THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.

With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

A near fine set in near fine dust jackets and VG+ slipcase.

Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2015. various artists. 1st edition (Centipede Press), Complete set of five volumes. First editions thus, original cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, colour illus double-page title page and preliminary page, b&w author portrait, illus endpapers. Night Winds illus. Grant Griffin; Death Angel's Shadow illus. Les Edwards; Darkness Weaves illus. Boco; Bloodstone illus. Patrick J. Jones; Dark Crusade illus. Tom Kidd.

Complete set of heroic fantasy stories about Kane the Swordsman, a lavishly illustrated sword and sorcery collection. The first Centipede Press edition, all published in September 2015, all first printing

When Centipede Press announced the expanded 500-copy second printing (released at a retail price of around $500–$800), the skyrocketing value of the 2015 set stabilized slightly. However, because the 2015 set features genuine, hand-signed signature pages by the contributing artists (rather than the facsimile signatures in the newer run), it remains the ultimate prize for completions and continues to hold its premium value.

*****Just in! ONLY 50 copies numbered 201-250*****

After destroying the headquarters of an underground amputation cult, a burned and battered Kline finds himself in a holding cell. When he enlists the help of an ex-cop to commute his prison sentence, Kline inadvertently tangles with a schism of the very cult he sought to destroy. Can Kline investigate the sect’s ritualistic murder spree without getting lured into their ranks?

“Evenson has created a haunted world of violence and damage, where the more a person loses, the closer they get to God. The author proves yet again to be a master alchemist, stirring up a noir-infused detective story, a cultic conspiracy, and some wonderfully grisly body horror into a concoction that is distinctly Evenson.”

—Brandon Grafius

With an Introduction by Luigi Musolino.

The Numbered edition of 250 copies is a quarter leather binding with cloth sides. The leather is goatskin from the Alran Tannery in France. The Alran tannery has been producing some of the finest goat leather for over 100 years. The grain has a natural buffed texture similar to suede that adds a beautiful depth to the leather. The European cloth has a uniquely crinkled surface and features a foiled leather label which is inset into the front cover. Head & tail bands are handmade with goatskin and endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra.

The edition is printed on Mohawk Via Laid and is published in two volumes with a tipped in fold-out of the Classic edition dust jacket art. It is housed in a cloth covered clamshell enclosure with velour lined floors and is signed by Robert McCammon & Ed Binkley.

Winner of the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, Swan Song is Robert McCammon’s gripping post-apocalyptic novel that weaves a tale of survival, hope, and the battle between good and evil.

Set in a world devastated by nuclear war, the story follows a diverse cast of characters as they navigate the treacherous landscape of a ruined America, fighting for their lives and the future of humanity.

Among these survivors are Sister Creep, who stumbles upon a mysterious and transformative glass relic amidst the ruins of Manhattan; Joshua Hutchins, a former wrestler seeking refuge from the radioactive fallout in a remote Nebraska gas station; and Swan, a young girl blessed with extraordinary powers, whose journey with Joshua leads them to a Missouri town where restoration and hope might begin through her gifts.

Yet, the ancient malevolent force responsible for the world’s devastation is on a relentless quest to recruit the wounded for its dark army. In this desolate landscape teeming with grotesque beasts and pillaging armies, the last vestiges of humanity are drawn into a cataclysmic struggle between good and evil—one that will seal the fate of humankind.

First published in June 1987, Swan Song was the first novel of Robert McCammon’s to appear on the New York Times best-seller list. Critics praised its pace and prose, with Publishers Weekly calling it “broad and compelling… a long, satisfying look at hell and salvation,” while Rave Reviews praised the novel as “distinctive and engrossing…you’ll wish there were more of Swan Song.”

In his chilling vision of a post-apocalyptic world, Robert McCammon masterfully constructs a compelling tale that captures the catastrophic impact of nuclear conflict, the ensuing terror, and the fragile hope for humanity’s redemption.

Like new, direct from the publisher. Author signed copies

A new novel by Tim Curran

Full color front cover artwork, full color interior illustrations, and full color end sheet by M. Wayne Miller.

Alone.

Trapped in the age of dinosaurs.

Sidra is fourteen years old. Entitled. Sheltered.

Now a teleportation accident in the far future has left her stranded in the green hell of the Triassic Period where she must search for her lost brother.

But in order to do that, she must learn to survive in the reed swamps and impenetrable jungles of the Triassic.

With little but the clothes on her back, has to learn to fish, to hunt, to make tools and weapons in one of the most unforgiving periods in Earth’s history.

Every day is a battle against the harsh environment, its predators, and against herself.

Centipede Press 2026 as new copy in shrink wrap. Out of print the day of publication.

An absolute triumph, a masterpiece of suspense, emotion, and flat-out terror … It’s one of this year’s can’t-miss books, and a journey you won’t soon forget.”—Paste Magazine

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.

The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is a “powerfully humane” (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life … only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:

Limited to only 500 signed and hand-numbered copies

Signed by Daniel Kraus and Vincent Sammy on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page

6.14” x 9.21” trim size

472 pages

Offset printed on 100gsm Munken Print Cream

Bound in full cloth

Head and tail bands

Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine

Full-colour endpapers

Sewn binding

Ribbon page marker

Dust jacket artwork by Vincent Sammy

Naked artwork on reverse dust jacket

Featuring six full colour interior illustrations by Vincent Sammy printed on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book

Housed in custom two-piece enclosure

Covered in a deluxe material

Hot foil stamping on the front and back

Ribbon lifter