Best Served Cold Signed & Personalized Artist Edition

“Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.”

Get your copy of this gorgeous edition of the nastiest piece of work in the Circle of the World personalized to the name of your choosing and signed by that bastion of bastardy, that strongman of cynicism, that exemplar of excessive cruelty Joe Abercrombie! This fine press edition of Best Served Cold features interior art by Tyler Jacobson, a dust jacket by Joel Daniel Phillips, and foil-stamped covers by Emily Chase. Personalizations are featured on a gorgeous full-page bookplate created exclusively for this release by Emily Chase.A must-have for fans of the grim, the dark, and especially the Grimdark.

We are proud to have produced what must be the highest spec book at this price point, in line with our Red Rising special edition collaboration with Curious King. The Artist Edition of Best Served Cold includes unique artwork by Tyler Jacobson on the interior and Joel Daniel Phillips on the dust jacket. The original binding artwork has been designed with the complete collection of all three books in the series in mind, building a cohesive set of images across the spines with the future release of each book. This book has also been designed to coordinate with the special edition printing of the First Law Trilogy produced by Lit Escalates. 

THE SPECS:

• Signed & personalized by Joe Abercrombie
• Personalization featured on full-page custom bookplate by Emily Chase
• Signature on a tip in bound into the book.
• 9 full-colour interior paintings & 20 black and white drawings by Tyler Jacobson
• Dust jacket art by Joel Daniel Phillips
• Bound in Black Buckram
• Red metallic luscious foil stamping on book and slipcase
• Illustrated endpapers by Jacobson
• 4-colour offset printing throughout on quality paper stock: Munken Lynx White Smooth 100gsm
• Slipcase features a quote from Best Served Cold

Printed in 4-colour offset lithography on Munken Lynx White Smooth 100gsm by L.E.G.O. (Legatoria Editoriale Giovanni Olivotto) in Italy, this edition comes with a dust jacket featuring art from Joel Daniel Phillips as well as nine full-colour paintings and twenty black and white line drawings by Tyler Jacobson within the book.

Underneath the jacket, both front and back boards are covered in Black Buckram and hot foil stamped in a dark red metallic foil. Full-colour endpapers illustrated by Jacobson adorn both the front and back of the book.

The spine is rounded and comes with crimson head and tailbands. The slipcase has been formed out of 3mm thick board and covered with buckram. The slipcase design is on black buckram with crimson suede lining with a stamped foil quotation from Best Served Cold.

PLEASE NOTE: As this is a pre-order, images depict an artist rendering of the products. Subject to slight changes pending the production process.