Illustrations by Even Mehl Amundsen.

Published by Conversation Tree Press.

Notes:

There is a limit of one copy per person/household.
All three illustrations are fold outs; we recommend handling them with a bit of extra care when turning the pages.

The novels in the acclaimed Gentleman Bastards series trace the exploits of an elite band of thieves and confidence artists moving through a richly imagined city-state shaped in the image of medieval Venice. In Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent, Scott Lynch returns to the cobblestones and canals of Camorr, offering a glimpse into the formative years of one of the young Gentleman Bastards.

Here, however, Locke is not yet the architect of elaborate deceptions, but a boy apprenticed to learn something wholly new and entirely unnatural: the discipline and meagre rewards of (mostly) honest, hard labour.

Set against the uproar of taverns and the quiet menace of the canals, the story focuses on an unlikely companionship and the education it affords.

First published in Grimdark Magazine, this edition has been expanded by the author and is considered his preferred and final version.

If this is your first visit to Camorr, you’ll find a tale that’s equal parts funny, tragic, and warm, while being entirely accessible as a standalone. If you’ve met any of the Gentleman Bastards before—well, you know what to expect.

Edition Information

Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent is a limited edition of 500 unnumbered copies. A brief overview of the edition, with additional details below:

Artwork: Even Mehl Amundsen has contributed three full-colour illustrations, all of them fold-outs, printed separately and individually tipped in by hand.
Typography: Interior design and typography are by Tony Geer.
Letterpress printing: Scott Vile at the Ascensius Press printed the edition in Maine (United States) on Neenah Cotton Pearl White Letterpress 118gsm paper.
Binding: Quarter-bound in book cloth and hand-marbled paper from Renato Crepaldi. The endpapers are GF Smith Colorplan with a linen finish.
Format: The books have a trim size of 6in × 9in and 59 pages including front and back matter, making it our second-longest Short Stops title, just behind Beyond the Aquila Rift.
Signatures: All copies are signed by the author and artist.