2024 First Edition Deluxe Edition
SIGRUN & THE MIST
By Jack Grayle; Shani Oates
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Fine
Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Grayle Press, USA, 2024
Language: English
Limited Edition: 31/75 Copies
Illustrated By: Rowan E. Cassidy
Collation: pp. 293
Dust Jacket: None, as Issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002422
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
SIGRUN & THE MIST
With Commentary by Shani Oates
Retelling of Egil & Asmund By: David Koffer
Wet-Plate Photography By: Nicola Huffstickler
Photographic Model: Klara Wolfe
Cover Design: Ad Omen
Back Cover Dragon Image: Rowan E. Cassidy
The scarce Deluxe issue of Jack Grayle’s Sigrun & The Mist, one of only 75 hand-numbered leather-bound copies produced, this example numbered 31.
Bound in cream leather with raised spine bands and gilt decoration, the upper board incorporates gilt runic devices and a mounted monochrome photograph of Klara Wolfe as Sigrun. The lower board is decorated with Rowan E. Cassidy’s gilt dragon design.
The Deluxe issue is substantially scarcer than the standard edition of 750 copies and includes additional material exclusive to this issue, including an additional illustration and Klara Wolfe’s Sigrun Praxis.
Published by Grayle Press in 2024, the volume brings together Grayle’s dramatic treatment of the Sigrun legend, Shani Oates’ extensive commentary on the Valkyrie and northern magical traditions, David Koffer’s retelling of Egil & Asmund, and Nicola Huffstickler’s wet-plate photographic studies of Klara Wolfe as Sigrun.
A distinctive contemporary esoteric production combining Norse mythology, ritual practice, dramatic literature and book art.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
New, unread.
The cream leather binding remains clean and bright, with sharp corners and edges. The gilt decoration and runic devices remain bright, and the mounted photographic panel to the upper board is clean and well preserved.
Internally clean, fresh and crisp.
The limitation page identifies this as the Deluxe leather-bound edition of 75 hand-numbered copies and records this example as No. 31.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Grayle Press / Anathema Publishing — Sigrun & The Mist
Miskatonic Books — Sigrun & The Mist, Deluxe Leather Bound Edition
SYNOPSIS
At the centre of Sigrun & The Mist is Jack Grayle’s full-length play in blank verse, drawing upon Icelandic legendary material and the figure of Sigrun, the Valkyrie.
Set within a mythic northern world of warriors, princes, supernatural beings and gods, the drama explores fate, love, mortality, obligation and the tension between individual choice and destiny.
David Koffer’s retelling of Egil & Asmund provides the traditional narrative background to Grayle’s dramatic interpretation.
Shani Oates follows with Sigrun and Mist: A Commentary, an extensive study of the Valkyrie tradition, Norse warfare, seiðr and associated magical practices. Her contribution is supplemented by Two Bindrunes, devised specifically for engagement with the themes and magical current of the work.
The final sections turn toward the visual and practical dimensions of the book. Klara Wolfe discusses her embodiment of Sigrun; Nicola Huffstickler examines the tintype and ambrotype process used for the photographic sequence; and Wolfe concludes with the Sigrun Praxis included in this Deluxe issue.
The result is an interdisciplinary work combining dramatic poetry, mythology, occult commentary, traditional magical practice and historic photographic techniques.
AUTHOR BIO
Jack Grayle is an author and practitioner of contemporary occultism whose work draws upon ancient religious traditions and their modern magical interpretation.
He is particularly associated with The Hekataeon, his influential work devoted to the goddess Hekate. Sigrun & The Mist extends his approach into the mythological and magical traditions of northern Europe.
CONTRIBUTORS
Shani Oates is an author, researcher and practitioner associated with the traditional witchcraft current of the Clan of Tubal Cain. Her contribution comprises the principal esoteric commentary together with Two Bindrunes devised for the work.
David Koffer contributes a modern retelling of Egil & Asmund, providing the traditional narrative source against which Grayle’s dramatic treatment may be read.
Nicola Huffstickler created the book’s photographic sequence using the historic wet-plate processes of tintype and ambrotype, with Klara Wolfe appearing as Sigrun.
Klara Wolfe also contributes Becoming Sigrun and, in this Deluxe issue, the concluding Sigrun Praxis.
ILLUSTRATOR
Rowan E. Cassidy
Rowan E. Cassidy contributed the illustrative work to the volume, including the dragon design used as part of the book’s binding decoration.
PHOTOGRAPHER — NICOLA HUFFSTICKLER
Nicola Huffstickler created the book’s sequence of ten photographic studies using historic wet-plate processes, principally tintype and ambrotype.
These deliberately antiquarian photographic techniques give the images a material and visual character markedly different from modern digital photography and form an integral part of the book’s interpretation of the Sigrun figure.
KLARA WOLFE
Klara Wolfe appears throughout the photographic sequence as Sigrun and contributes a personal account of embodying the character for Huffstickler’s camera.
For the Deluxe issue she also contributes an additional Valkyrie ritual unavailable in the standard edition.
2024 First Edition Deluxe Edition
SIGRUN & THE MIST
By Jack Grayle; Shani Oates
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Fine
Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Grayle Press, USA, 2024
Language: English
Limited Edition: 31/75 Copies
Illustrated By: Rowan E. Cassidy
Collation: pp. 293
Dust Jacket: None, as Issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002422
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
SIGRUN & THE MIST
With Commentary by Shani Oates
Retelling of Egil & Asmund By: David Koffer
Wet-Plate Photography By: Nicola Huffstickler
Photographic Model: Klara Wolfe
Cover Design: Ad Omen
Back Cover Dragon Image: Rowan E. Cassidy
The scarce Deluxe issue of Jack Grayle’s Sigrun & The Mist, one of only 75 hand-numbered leather-bound copies produced, this example numbered 31.
Bound in cream leather with raised spine bands and gilt decoration, the upper board incorporates gilt runic devices and a mounted monochrome photograph of Klara Wolfe as Sigrun. The lower board is decorated with Rowan E. Cassidy’s gilt dragon design.
The Deluxe issue is substantially scarcer than the standard edition of 750 copies and includes additional material exclusive to this issue, including an additional illustration and Klara Wolfe’s Sigrun Praxis.
Published by Grayle Press in 2024, the volume brings together Grayle’s dramatic treatment of the Sigrun legend, Shani Oates’ extensive commentary on the Valkyrie and northern magical traditions, David Koffer’s retelling of Egil & Asmund, and Nicola Huffstickler’s wet-plate photographic studies of Klara Wolfe as Sigrun.
A distinctive contemporary esoteric production combining Norse mythology, ritual practice, dramatic literature and book art.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
New, unread.
The cream leather binding remains clean and bright, with sharp corners and edges. The gilt decoration and runic devices remain bright, and the mounted photographic panel to the upper board is clean and well preserved.
Internally clean, fresh and crisp.
The limitation page identifies this as the Deluxe leather-bound edition of 75 hand-numbered copies and records this example as No. 31.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
Grayle Press / Anathema Publishing — Sigrun & The Mist
Miskatonic Books — Sigrun & The Mist, Deluxe Leather Bound Edition
SYNOPSIS
At the centre of Sigrun & The Mist is Jack Grayle’s full-length play in blank verse, drawing upon Icelandic legendary material and the figure of Sigrun, the Valkyrie.
Set within a mythic northern world of warriors, princes, supernatural beings and gods, the drama explores fate, love, mortality, obligation and the tension between individual choice and destiny.
David Koffer’s retelling of Egil & Asmund provides the traditional narrative background to Grayle’s dramatic interpretation.
Shani Oates follows with Sigrun and Mist: A Commentary, an extensive study of the Valkyrie tradition, Norse warfare, seiðr and associated magical practices. Her contribution is supplemented by Two Bindrunes, devised specifically for engagement with the themes and magical current of the work.
The final sections turn toward the visual and practical dimensions of the book. Klara Wolfe discusses her embodiment of Sigrun; Nicola Huffstickler examines the tintype and ambrotype process used for the photographic sequence; and Wolfe concludes with the Sigrun Praxis included in this Deluxe issue.
The result is an interdisciplinary work combining dramatic poetry, mythology, occult commentary, traditional magical practice and historic photographic techniques.
AUTHOR BIO
Jack Grayle is an author and practitioner of contemporary occultism whose work draws upon ancient religious traditions and their modern magical interpretation.
He is particularly associated with The Hekataeon, his influential work devoted to the goddess Hekate. Sigrun & The Mist extends his approach into the mythological and magical traditions of northern Europe.
CONTRIBUTORS
Shani Oates is an author, researcher and practitioner associated with the traditional witchcraft current of the Clan of Tubal Cain. Her contribution comprises the principal esoteric commentary together with Two Bindrunes devised for the work.
David Koffer contributes a modern retelling of Egil & Asmund, providing the traditional narrative source against which Grayle’s dramatic treatment may be read.
Nicola Huffstickler created the book’s photographic sequence using the historic wet-plate processes of tintype and ambrotype, with Klara Wolfe appearing as Sigrun.
Klara Wolfe also contributes Becoming Sigrun and, in this Deluxe issue, the concluding Sigrun Praxis.
ILLUSTRATOR
Rowan E. Cassidy
Rowan E. Cassidy contributed the illustrative work to the volume, including the dragon design used as part of the book’s binding decoration.
PHOTOGRAPHER — NICOLA HUFFSTICKLER
Nicola Huffstickler created the book’s sequence of ten photographic studies using historic wet-plate processes, principally tintype and ambrotype.
These deliberately antiquarian photographic techniques give the images a material and visual character markedly different from modern digital photography and form an integral part of the book’s interpretation of the Sigrun figure.
KLARA WOLFE
Klara Wolfe appears throughout the photographic sequence as Sigrun and contributes a personal account of embodying the character for Huffstickler’s camera.
For the Deluxe issue she also contributes an additional Valkyrie ritual unavailable in the standard edition.
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