Fablelistik Editions

Lettered Edition of Fourth Wing

Name: Lettered Edition of Fourth Wing
Brand: Fablelistik Editions
Price: 3600.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Rebecca Yarros

Lettered Editions are true works of art. These are the pinnacle of craftsmanship—books created without compromise, letterpress or offset printed, these edition are handbound by designer booksbinders. From the materials to the methods, everything is executed to the highest standard, turning the book itself into a sculptural object worthy of admiration. The work is done entirely by hand, from sewing each signature (section of pages) using traditional stitching methods, to creating custom-made head and tail bands (the decorative details at the top and bottom of the spine), to assembling bespoke clamshell boxes or slipcases. The process is slow and deeply intentional—each copy can take dozens of hours to complete, and often no two are exactly alike. Because of the skill and labor involved, Lettered Editions are produced in extremely small quantities.

The Fourth Wing Lettered Edition (lettered A-Z) pays tribute to the Empyrean dragons with real gold foil detailing, and handcrafted dragon scales, handpainted with leather dyes on a fair goatskin cover. The endpapers pay homage to Violet’s weapon of choice—the dagger—and the interior features all the art you’ll find in the Numbered Edition, plus one additional illustration.

This edition comes with an ‘Empyrean Matching Right,’ allowing these customers first right to purchase their matching letter for the next title in the series, Iron Flame.

$3,600.00

PLEASE NOTE: International prices listed for each product are inclusive of all taxes, duties, and fees. Published editions may have slight variations from the photos and prototypes shown here.

Production Specs

Print Run: 26 copies
Estimated Ship: Winter 2026
Available for Pre-Order: International
Order Limit: 1 copy per household
Page Count: 656 pages
Trim Size: 7.25 x 10.25
Signed by Rebecca Yarros, Nicky Oliver, Helena Schmalz, Alexis Lampley, and Virginia Allyn
Bookbinder: Nicky Oliver (Black Fox Bindery)
Printer: Printing offset
Paper: 80# Finch Opaque Smooth Uncoated stock

Bookbinding Details:

Smyth sewn with rounded back
Bradel style structure with a Fraynot hinge attachment
Fair goatskin on the front and backboards, hand painted with leather dyes and decorated with various matte and metallic foils
The spine leather, also fair goatskin, was decorated with a selection of gold foils and finished off with real gold foil for the scales, a technique which was also used for the endpapers
Real gold foil edges
Gilt applied leather head and tail bands

Enclosure Details:

Enclosure Binder: Nicky Oliver (Black Fox Bindery)
Housed within a hand-made clamshell back box with labels and a decorated spine

Interior Details include:

Typography: The book is set in Freight Text Pro; all supplemental fonts throughout the book are hand-lettered by Alexis Lampley
Fablelistik-exclusive designed line art by Alexis Lampley throughout the book - epigraph pages with chapter-specific Easter eggs hidden throughout, and dragon-wrapped dropcaps to open each chapter
At least seven 4-color illustrations throughout by Helena Schmalz
Endpapers are a gold-foiled design featuring daggers throughout
Also includes reimagined maps of The Continent and Basgiath, both 4-color

Book Summary

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from #1 New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter―like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda―because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

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Art Gallery

Collaborators

Artist

Helena Schmalz

Helena Schmalz is a freelance illustrator based in Hannover, Germany, specializing in character illustrations for young adult books. She’s currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in animation and loves bringing fantastical characters to life. When she’s not drawing, she’s watching true crime documentaries, practicing pole dance, or hanging out with her three cats.

Artist

Alexis Lampley

Alexis Lampley has worked for more than a decade as a hand-letterer and illustrator, focusing on books inside and out. She specializes in adapting her style to each specific title she works on, in order to better express the theme and mood of a particular story. As an author herself, Alexis understands the importance of art as a way to bring the words of a story to life. Alexis’s novel, Pride and Prejudice in Space, features dozens of her illustrations, which showcase her wide range of styles and ability. Along with her own book, she has designed and illustrated dozens of book covers.

Bookbinder

Nicky Oliver

Nicky Oliver has more than fifteen years of experience working in commercial binderies, where she honed a range of skills that include bookbinding, box-making, labels and blocking, inlay and onlay work, and full leather and small-run limited-edition bindings.

Nicky specializes in the dyeing of her own leather for her design pieces. This aspect of her practice has enabled her to collaborate with other craftspeople. She welcomes the unity of different disciplines to create unique pieces of work.