SECRETS OF THE NINE Omnibus Hardcover Signed

570 pages! All three of Philip José Farmer’s Secrets of the Nine novels together. This edition also marks the first US hardcover publication of Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin (the latter having been published in the UK under the title Keepers of the Secrets). A Feast Unknown: The controversial underground classic of blood and lust -- for adults only, starring a thinly disguised Tarzan! The Mad Goblin and Lord of the Trees: originally published together in an Ace double edition, these tales follow Grandrith’s and Caliban’s less controversial but no less exciting simultaneous-separate adventures in their desperate battle against the Nine. Lord of the Trees is the follow-up to Jose Farmer’s shocking and controversial A Feast Unknown. A Feast Unknown is Farmer's take on why superheroes never seem to have sex lives and sex organs. Well, here they do, and the book was labeled Adult when it first came out, sporting a Richard Corben cover and published by specialty publisher. Here is one online review: Farmer uses his incredible imagination to pit Tarzan and Doc Savage against each other in a death struggle. But, the names he uses are Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban. Grandrith tells the story. Sex, yeah, plenty and it's graphic and dirty, biting even (sorry, could not resist that hint). But, the book is hilarious, it's campy and cheesy and more fun that the Avengers can ever hope to be. But, it is filthy. With cover art and frontispiece by Douglas Klauba, three full color plates by Iason Ragnar Bellerophon, this is the definitive collection of the adventures of Doc Caliban and Lord Grandrith! This volume also features previously published essays by Theodore Sturgeon and Art Sippo, as well as a Nine Universe timeline by Win Scott Eckert and a new afterword to the omnibus by Eckert.