Or, The Fairies' Parliament 
 
John Crowley. Art by Peter Milton. 
 
Incunabula: 2021. One of 2,800 trade copies of the 40th anniversary edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Large, square octavo. Slight wrinkling along the top and bottom of the jacket. Minor foxing on the top edge of the text block. One water stain on the fore edge of the text block. 779 pages. Very good. 
 
This is a big book to be cradled in your lap in your most comfortable reading spot while you get lost in the family secrets and worlds within worlds within worlds. Just to begin: it's set in a pastoral, nineteenth century America on two edges, the borders of Faerieland and the emergence of a popular fascism. The art by Peter Milton was not inspired by the novel but accompanies the text, as the publishers note, to help the reader form a Renaissance-style memory palace of the story by mapping the plot onto the images. The afterword by Harold Bloom plays a canonizing outro for the book that discovered the outer limits of the literary fantastic. 
 
“God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.”