Frost and Flower: My Life With Manic Depressions so Far (Limited Edition, signed by Gibbons with a special, signed print by Barry Moser)

First Limited Edition, First Printing (1995). Fine in a fine designer casing. Am immaculate copy. One of only 26 copies lettered A-Z, this being copy "W". Signed by both Gibbons and Moser. Also incudes a stand alone special print signed by Moser. Complete with the rare case, beautifully designed in every aspect. The author's autobiographical account of her struggle with mental illness. Octavo. pp. [8], 20, [4]. 

A stunning edition and example of artistic and creative publishing. Frontispiece engraving by Barry Moser. This deluxe edition is quarter bound in leather with handmade pastepaper boards and leather foredges. Printed on textured Twinrocker handmade paper. Bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. Presented in a stunning, specially designed handmade box by Kannex Fung. 

Gibbons suffers from bipolar disorder. She states that she is extremely creative during her manic phases, in which she believes that everything is instrumented by a "real magic." Her award winning novel, Ellen Foster, was written during one such phase. Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. Praised as an extraordinary debut, Eudora Welty said that "the honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word" mark the work of this talented writer, and Walker Percy said, "Ellen Foster is a Southern Holden Caulfield, tougher perhaps, as funny…a breathtaking first novel." She has won numerous awards and accolades over the years and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.