PRESALE LAUNCHES MARCH 20 AT NOON CT

NUMBERED EDITION

SIGNED BY PIERCE BROWN

MARC SIMONETTI & JOEL DANIEL PHILLIPS

LIMITED TO 350 COPIES

$780.00

This is the first of the three letterpress and limited tiers for Red Rising and it packs the punch of a fully charged PulseFist. Limited to 350 copies only with the interior layout reworked for letterpress printing on beautiful paper. Lovingly handbound with a handmade slipcase, this edition also comes with the signatures of Pierce Brown, Marc Simonetti and Joel Daniel Phillips. Halfbound in sumptuous black goatskin leather and featuring Marc’s iconic piece of Darrow at the institute on a marbled background. The slipcase also features a cutout with another of Marc’s amazing pieces of art. This one comes with Series Rights to future books in the Red Rising Series!

  • Signed and Numbered by Pierce Brown, Joel Daniel Phillips and Marc Simonetti

  • 13 pages of new, exclusive writing by Pierce Brown exploring the history, philosophy and personality traits central to.each of the Institute Houses

  • Full set of 13 Official Institute House Sigils by Joel Daniel Phillips

  • 21 full-colour interior paintings by Marc Simonetti

  • Updated Institute Map by Joel Daniel Phillips

  • Half-bound in black goatskin leather

  • Two-colour letterpress on Mohawk Superfine Ultra White 118gsm

  • Printed by Nomad Letterpress on a Heidelberg Windmill letterpress

  • Hand tooling, marbled boards, translucent foil stamping

  • Rounded spine with stamping in metallic red and gold

  • Handmade slipcase with inset illustration  by Marc Simonetti within foiled, stamped Gold Sigil

  • Hand-coloured top edge in grey white and red

DETAILS:

Printed in two colours on a Heidelberg Windmill letterpress by the master printers at Nomad Letterpress (Cheltenham, UK) on Mohawk Superfine Ultra White 118gsm paper.

Half-bound in black goatskin leather with red metallic hand tooling by the premier handbinders in the UK: Ludlow Bookbinders. The boards are covered in printed marble with elements from Marc Simonetti’s paintings and are finished with a translucent foil stamping to the front cover. Both the front and rear endpapers feature full-color illustrations from Simonetti.

The spine is rounded with 2 hits of hot foil stamping in metallic red and gold. This is matched with the black and red head and tailbands, and comes finished with a sumptuous dark red ribbon. The top edge of the book is hand coloured in grey, white and red.

Surrounding the book is a handmade slipcase* by Ludlow Bookbinders covered in Wibalin Buckram and featuring a cut out with a Marc Simonetti illustration embedded within and a gold stamped sigil. 

*Please note that there will be a curved slipcase for this edition in the final release!

PLEASE NOTE: The pre-order window will be live from March 20 at Noon CT to April 10 at Noon CT, while supplies last. We will be going into production as soon as the pre-orders close, and we expect your book to ship around Christmas!