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Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Cover art by Richard Powers. Cover price $1.75. World Fantasy Award winner, 1978. "A powerful, original, scary novel." Barron, Horror Literature *4-203. Tymn, Horror Literature *4-147. Cover interiors toned. A very good plus gently read copy.

347 pages.

Ages have slight age toning, Spine is sunned and slightly cocked. Wear to the cover edges, particularly at the spine folds. This is a first printing of the Berkley Medallion issue.

First Edition. Pages clean, no markings, age-toned, light wear to edges. We are closed 14th-23rd July items ordered after 9:00am on the 13th July will be shipped on 25th July, shipping times have been updated. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING

First Edition, First Printing {Currey: no statement required). -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (spine lettering a bit dulled; light tape shadows on endsheets from previous owner) with fine dust jacket.

12mo. 183 pages. Extremities rubbed, lower front corner creased, cover mildly creased along spine, spine not creased; mark and stamp to upper edge; date stamped inside back cover, otherwise unmarked. A very good copy.

As new, possibly unread copy. Contents are tight and clean, with no inscriptions and no foxing. Cover is in superb condition, with an uncreased/unbroken spine. An excellent condition book, perfect for any collector of sci-fi/fantasy books. 189pp. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information.

First mass market edition, first printing. Near Fine- to Very Good++ condition; lightest edgewear and chipping noted at corners. Sharp edges! A clean, very lightly worn copy. Photographs accurately depict the copy offered for sale.

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Near Fine trade paperback, a clean unmarked copy. 1991 reprint of 1978 original, now somewhat scarce.

Ex-library with minimal markings. Missing front end page.; Lovely dustjacket with $7.95 price on front flap. Richard Powers cover art.; 185 pages

With a bookselllers hand stamp and a small crease in the cover, otherwise a fine first edition, first printing Orb paperback copy, dark blue spine. 348 pages. Photos on request.

First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Richard Powers illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm with a slight lean to the spine, a little dustiness to the very edges of the boards and a tiny bump to the bottom corner of the upper board. The contents, with moderate spotting to the closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, creased and toned dustwrapper that has some indentations and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped ($7.95 on the front flap). A semi-autobiographical urban fantasy novel set in San Francisco about an alcoholic weird-fiction writer who unearths a series of occult texts in the city's second hand book shops. It was originally serialised in a shorter form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1977 under the title "The Pale Brown Thing". Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Millington Books, 1978. First UK Edition. Octavo; 189pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £3.95 price intact; blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with faint shelfwear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Pages lightly and uniformly toned, with final gathering [161-189] noticeably less-so (likely printed on slightly-different stock). Binding is sound and pages unmarked. British edition of Leiber's World Fantasy-winning urban fantasy / horror novel, which appeared in the States from Berkley / Putnam a year prior.

NEAR FINE UK HARDBACK in a AS NEW DJ. CLEAN & UNMARKED . 1st UK Ed./1st Printing. Light paper toning, otherwise FINE. DJ in Clear, ARCHIVAL MYLAR WRAP. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY! [REDUCED Charges for Standard International Delivery]

Like New mass market paperback. Appears unread.

8.5 x 6", orange cloth, 185pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities lightly bumped and worn, in a rubbed and edge-worn/bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP), WITH LABEL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, FRITZ LEIBER, AFFIXED INSIDE FRONT COVER.

Signed by Leiber at the title page. Orange cloth with gold spine titling, bumped to spine ends, with a thin 2in stain to front panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light toning and scuffing, heavy bump to spine head. DJ a little offset, so that the spine is a little forward over the front hinge. Finely foxed to textblock edges. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

Near fine with slight soiling to outer edge of text block. No markings, no bookplate and no remainder marks. In near fine dust jacket with no chips and is not price-clipped. Very slight edge wear. Cover art by Richard Powers.

Octavo, printed tan wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. ". one of the very best of the novel-length Jamesian stories. Leiber is rare in being an American writer who uses America settings [San Francisco in this case] but can still be very Jamesian." - Pardoe, The James Gang, p. 11. "Expanded from the the short novel 'Pale Brown Thing' this work represents the culmination of Leiber's lifelong effort to find corollaries for Gothic horrors in the modern world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-235. Winner of the 1978 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Joint winner of the 1977 British Fantasy Award. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-203. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-147. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 117-18. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 94. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 66. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 270. Initials "MD" inked on front cover, light crease to front wrapper at lower fore-edge, a nearly fine copy. An uncommon proof. (#172805)

185 pages. Contents very clean, bright, without marks.Orange cloth exceptionally clea, bright, gold lettering, square. Unclipped ($7.95) dust jacket is bright, clean with a trifle bit od rubbing to tips & one half-inch tear at top edge. SIGNED by Fritz Leiber on the front blank endpaper. Please "Ask Bookseller" if this is available before ordering.

Dust jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.