And the Ass Saw the Angel. London: Black Spring Press, 2007. Limited Edition. Publisher’s full grained black morocco boards, lettered in silver, housed in maroon cloth slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 75 Numbered Copies, of the Deluxe Edition; Signed by the Author.

Tipped-in photographic frontispiece under tissue-guard by Peter Greenhalf after Julia Margaret Cameron. One plate in the text – Balaam reproved by his ass. Design & typesetting by Phil Baines. 

A cult classic, Cave’s acclaimed first novel takes on the southern gothic in this bizarre tale of a mute boy called Euchrid Eucrow, who, having been denied the faculty of speech, eventually explodes in a catharsis of rage and brings to its knees the religious community in which he lives.

The title itself references Balaam’s ass from the Book of Numbers, which saw an angel invisible to its master