New, Unread, First Print of this 2015 Hardback Edition.

One of only 200 copies of this hand-numbered, slipcased, Limited Edition published in 2003.

In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous "Labours of Herakles") to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity.

First collection by Amali Gunasekera, published under her former name of Amali Rodrigo. The lotus flower embodies the promise of purity and transcendence in poems relating to customs and superstition, war and its aftermath, fables and human relationships. New, unread copy.

First Edition / First Print of this 2020 hardback edition.

New, hand-signed First Edition / First Print. A hand-signed bookplate is attached to the title page of this copy.

New, slipcased limited edition.