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Deadly / Children of the Streets – Edgeworks Abbey Archive Hardcover Bundle

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N.B.: These are the last copies of these books, and are in Very Good/Good condition; they may show signs of wear, have minor defects: clipped or chipped dust jacket, dinged corners, rumpled or slightly torn dust jackets, bumps to the boards, etc. The best copies will be shipped to the first order, the second-best copies to the second order, and so on…

Five years in the making, the Edgeworks Abbey Archive represents Harlan Ellison’s last word on his written legacy. Researched and edited by Ellison’s long-time associate, Jason Davis, under the supervision of Harlan and Susan Ellison, this collection assembles the preferred texts of each story and essay along with previously uncollected and unpublished material to create the definitive edition.

For much of the 20th century, THE DEADLY STREETS (Ace, 1958) and CHILDREN OF THE STREETS (Ace, 1961, as THE JUVIES) represented Harlan Ellison’s short-form work in the genre where he initially made his name: crime stories focused on juvenile delinquents. Alongside WEB OF THE CITY (Pyramid, 1958) and MEMOS FROM PURGATORY (Regency, 1961), these stories catalogued the horrors he witnessed during ten weeks embedded with The Barrons in Red Hook.

The preferred texts for both volumes have been assembled along with bonus material to present a matched set of Harlan Ellison’s STREETS, so affordable, you won’t have to rob a candy store to purchase them.

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Description

THE DEADLY STREETS
Edited by Jason Davis, director of the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project.

Cover photograph by Steven Barber.

The Edgeworks Abbey Archive edition contains the complete table of contents of the 1975 Pyramid edition of THE DEADLY STREETS, with the author’s revisions from the 2014 Subterranean Press hardback:

  • Introduction to the 1975 Edition: Avoiding Dark Places
  • Introduction to the 1958 Edition: Some Sketches of the Damned
  • Rat Hater
  • “I’ll Bet You a Death”
  • We Take Care of Our Dead
  • The Man With the Golden Tongue
  • Johnny Slice’s Stoolie
  • Joy Ride
  • Buy Me That Blade!
  • The Hippie Slayer
  • Kid Killer
  • With a Knife in Her Hand
  • Sob Story (with Henry Slesar)
  • Look Me in the Eye, Boy!
  • The Dead Shot
  • Ship-Shape Pay-Off (with Robert Silverberg)
  • Made in Heaven
  • Students of the Assassin

NEW Edgeworks Abbey Archive Content:

Knocking Over the Candy Store by Jason Davis
An original essay detailing the history of Ellison’s first [published] short story collection.

Selling the Streets: 1975-1983
A compendium of Ellison-written cover copy for 62 years’ worth of DEADLY STREETS reissues.

Story Introductions: 1958
Ellison-written commentary on eleven stories from the first edition of THE DEADLY STREETS (Ace, 1958). Unseen since they were dropped from the 1975 Pyramid reissue.

Tightrope (previously unpublished)
An Ellison short story originally intended for the 1958 edition of THE DEADLY STREETS, but dropped from the book when the contents were adjusted to focus on stories of juvenile delinquency. Includes Ellison’s 1958 introduction.

Penny Dreadful: A Novel (previously unpublished)
A page of fiction thematically linked to the “Avoiding Dark Places.”

6″ x 9″ Trade Hardcover, approx. 250p. ISBN: 978-1-946542-11-3.

 

CHILDREN OF THE STREETS

Edited by Jason Davis, director of the Harlan Ellison Books Preservation Project.

Cover photograph by Marty Woess of Prospect Park, where many of the book’s stories take place.

This Edgeworks Abbey Archive edition contains the complete table of contents of the 2004 Severn House hardcover of CHILDREN OF THE STREETS, including last-minute revisions by the author that were not incorporated into the published edition.

  • 2004 CE: Looking Down the Street
  • 1961 CE: Ten Weeks in Hell
  • No Way Out
  • Matinee Idyll
  • No Game for Children
  • The Rough Boys
  • A Tiger at Nightfall
  • School for Killers
  • Memory of a Muted Trumpet
  • Stand Still and Die!
  • Gang Girl

NEW Edgeworks Abbey Archive Content:

From the Gutters to the Streets by Jason Davis
An original essay detailing the history of Ellison’s fourth short story collection.

Story Introductions: 1958-2001
Ellison-written commentary on the stories from an early assembly of THE DEADLY STREETS and OPENING SHOTS, edited by Lawrence Block.

School for Killers (previously unpublished)
Ellison’s preliminary outline of a novel to run approximately 60,000 words.

Black Money & Blind Date
Two 1957 short stories previously collected in the limited-edition PS Publishing volume, PEBBLES FROM THE MOUNTAIN.

6″ x 9″ Hardcover with Dust Jacket on 60# paper, approx. 236p. ISBN: 978-1-946542-13-7.

Additional information

Weight 2.625 lbs
Dimensions 9.5 × 6.5 × 2 in