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Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1947. Hardback. Originally priced at $3.00/black cloth with gold lettering on spine in illustrated black & blue jacket with white and blue let-; Light foxing fep ; 237 pages; Tering/jacket in mylar/slight tear at top spine/residual glue stains on end pages .
Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber, Jr - 1947
by Fritz Leiber, Jr
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Night's Black Agents
by Fritz Leiber, Jr
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VERY GOOD condition --- DUST JACKET: Minor wear to top and bottom edges. Minor chipping top of spine and outside corners. Age toning. In first two images, paper insert placed inside dust jacket for improved appearance. BOARDS: Very good condition. Minor smudges front and back covers. Very minor crease to top and bottom of spine. Lower front outside corner slightly bumped. BOOK: Very good condition. Age toning. Small pencil markings LEP. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.
Here on offer is a very nice copy of Fritz Leiber, Jr's. first book, "Night's Black Agents", a collection of horror stories, most of which were previously published in genre magazines. This copy is a true 1st American edition, 1st printing of the work published by Arkham House in 1947. The original dustjacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.
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" 'Night's Black Agents' is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Fritz Leiber. It was released in 1947 and was the author's first book. The book's title is taken from Macbeth, Act III, scene ii. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 3,084 copies.
Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Unknown and Weird Tales. Three were first published in this book. The last two stories showcase Leiber's Sword and Sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
Later editions added additional material under the same title. The Berkley (1978) reprint adds two stories "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" and "A Bit of the Dark World". The definitive version is the Gregg Press (1980) hardcover which adds a Foreword by Richard Gid Powers to the complete contents of the Berkley edition and is thus an expansion of the original Arkham House edition."
The above text was taken from Wikipedia.
This handsome copy would be a welcome addendum to your 1st editions library.
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Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States
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Arkham House, 1947. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Book and dust jacket have minor wear. First edition. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***
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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Illustrated by Ronald Clyne jacket. First edition. First Book. [3084 copies]. Holliston Black Novelex. 12mo. pp. x, 237, [1] colophon. Very Good/Good/Unclipped price ($3.00) in mylar. Toning at extremities, rubbing to spine gilt and lower edge. Jacket is rubbed at folds, caps and edges with some shallow chipping and tears with price sticker remnant to upper right jacket corner. Jacket rear is soiled overall with toned fold line. Nine short stories and a novel, only Arkham title..
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Night's Black Agents
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Black cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket. Limited 1/3000 copies. x, 237 pages; jacket by Ronald Clyne. Leiber's first Arkham collection and the first Arkham title to be sold to the paperback publishers, Ballantine Books. A clean, tight copy in a lightly rubbed, unclipped ($3.00) jacket. Rear jacket panel shows some expected toning and the rubbing is most pronounced along jacket edges. Remains a collector grade, price intact copy of an early Arkham title. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA: Arkham House. Bound in smart black cloth, with bright gilt lettering to spine, this hardcover Limited Edition (3000), is Vg in Vg wrapper. X/237pp with Forewod by Leiber and 10 stories, including, Smoke Ghost, Diary in the Snow, The Hound and Adepts Gambit. Hardcover book all VG. Wrapper is unclipped ($3.00), but has the tinniest chips at top/bottom of spine, and top and bottom of wrappers front return flap at hinge. General condition all VG. (See photo and request others if required) . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1947.
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Tomball, Texas, United States
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First Edition/First Printing, one of 3084 copies; A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket. An excellent collector's copy of this author's first novel from Arkham House; a must have for the horror collector or the Arkham completist! This book is in near fine condition with only trivial shelf wear, some light glue residue to the free papers, and a PO signature and bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows only light rubbing to the spine ends, corners, and edges, some mild creasing to the folds, and some minor foxing to the flap edges, else near fine or better. Not price clipped ($3.00 intact), not remaindered, not ex-library; in archival protection and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Night's Black Agents
by Fritz Leiber, Jr
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Book. Illus. by Ronald Clyne. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight very carefully read possibly unread copy. Age toning to the text block edges, light foxing to end papers front and rear, light board edge wear, light rubbing to boards. The 3.00 priced jacket has some light rubbing, lighyt edge wear, light age toning, fading to extremities. 3000 copies. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY..
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