H.R. Giger's Necronomicon
2005
£500.00
Ninth printing of H.R. Giger's Necronomicon (2005). Large format hardback in good condition. Shelf wear to the outer book jacket. Heavy bump to the bottom corner. Otherwise pages are clean and spine is in tact. Flyleaf and page 1 with Dalí's facsimile dedication to HR Giger. Please see photos for reference.
About
Necronomicon was the first major published compendium of images by Swiss artist H.R. Giger. Originally published in 1977, the book was given to director Ridley Scott during the pre-production of the film Alien, who then hired Giger to produce artwork and conceptual designs for the film.
The book was originally published by Sphinx Verlag and was re-published in 1991 by Morpheus International with additional artwork from Giger's Alien designs. Giger's Necronomicon is named for H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire Lovecraft invented and used as a plot device in his stories.
"Throughout the ages, in art, especially in surrealistic paintings, there have been allusions to the themes of the torment of birth, rapture of sexuality and the hopelessness and despair of death. However, in the work of H. R. Giger, the feelingful artistic depictions of the physical and emotional sufferings endured by the fetus during the trauma of birth, has reached its summit in both real and symbolic expression in the Necronomicon."
