Fritz Leiber, Jr.

Night's Black Agents [signed]

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo. x, 237 pp. First edition, one of 3,000 copies as stated in the colophon. Publisher's Holliston Black Novelex cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket unclipped with $3.00 price intact. Front free endpaper signed "Fritz Leiber, Jr.". Binding square and firm with minor extremity wear. Endpapers toned, with a previous owner's ink name at upper front free endpaper. Shallow chipping and small losses at spine extremities and corners, and wear along folds and lower edge.

Fritz Leiber's first book bringing together his pioneering urban supernatural fiction and two early adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Among the ten stories are "Smoke Ghost," "The Automatic Pistol," "The Hill and the Hole," "The Dreams of Albert Moreland," "The Sunken Land," and "Adept's Gambit." Leiber's modern city horrors helped reshape twentieth-century supernatural fiction, while his Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories became central works of modern sword and sorcery. M1. Very Good. Item #1054

Price: $300.00