Against the Day

First edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. [xii], 1085, [1]. Quarter-bound green sheen cloth over olive green paper-covered boards, lettered in black to spine. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye (priced $35 to front flap).

Author's sixth novel. Story set in the America of the Gilded Age (spanning the Chicago Columbian Exposition and the stirrings of WWI), an era of unrestrained corporate greed, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places with a cast of characters including anarchists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, and hired guns with cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx. "[A] major work of art." –The Wall Street Journal