Palaces of the Crow SIGNED FIRST EDITION

by Nayler, Ray

$40 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

New York: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Ray Nayler in ink to illustrated page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 370pp. Faint shelfwear to unclipped dust jacket featuring artwork by Maria Jesus Contreras. Bound in black paper over boards, with murder of crows flying above a stand of trees stamped in black to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine, else fine. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, crisp, unmarked, and unread. A highly presentable signed first edition of the newest speculative masterpiece from the Ray Bradbury Prize and Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist, and Hugo and Locus Award winner, Ray Nayler. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect. Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, has befriended a local flock of crows in her shtetl. Czeslaw is an underage Polish soldier who deserts the Red Army and runs into the freezing Lithuanian woods. Kezia is a Roma horse trader whose family is on the run from Soviet collectivization. As the German blitzkrieg crashes across the border in June 1941, all three

• Publisher: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2026
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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