The List of 7
1993: William Morrow and Company. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine / Complete dust jacket in Fine condition. Item #5376
ISBN: 0688122450
A First Edition, First Printing (full number line ending in “1”) signed by Mark Frost in black ink across the half title page. Book is immaculate; tightly bound with sharp corners, no discernible wear or flaws, with clean and bright maps across both paste-downs. Dust jacket has trace signs of wear, else Fine, with the list of seven names on the back still clean and bright. Now protected in an archival cover.
In Mark Frost’s debut novel, set against the backdrop of a fatal Victorian séance, a 25-year-old Arthur Conan Doyle, mourning his failure in scientific training, becomes acquainted with an eccentric and charming figure claiming to be the Queen’s secret agent. A rather young and bright-eyed Mark Frost gave an interesting interview for this 1993 release to Charlie Ross. Frost discussed how he lets his idea “dictate” the form it will take, either as film, novel, or series, as well as his work with surrealist artist David Lynch. Frost got his start in entertainment working with "The Six Million Dollar Man." Frost and Lynch met over an unrealized adaptation for Anthony Summers’ “Goddess,” a project centering around Marilyn Monroe; they followed this with a script for another unrealized film project called “One Saliva Bubble” before working on “Twin Peaks” together.
"The List of 7" was released in 1993, a year of numerous fantastic publications, including Jeffrey Euginides' beautiful "The Virgin Suicides," Susanna Kaysen's excellent "Girl, Interrupted," and E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize winner "The Shipping News."
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