Ace. Good+. 1982. Sixth Printing. Softcover. 0441791786 . Sixth book in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series. Pages clean and intact, bookstore stamp inside front cover. Cover has light edge/corner wear, some edge rubbing and light creasing, old price sticker on front. The gods, the sea and Death himself conspire to lure our heroes into the Shadow Lands, but they follow their true mistress, adventure. (145noto/13) ; Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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"Wonderful, magical Fritz Leiber, before whom Bradbury and Sturgeon and Norton and Goldman and Barth and Vonnegut bow, not to mention Robinson, Busby, Anderson and even yours truly, the maddest egomaniac of them all. Fritz Leiber, very likely the best of all of us, the man who has won more awards than anyone else in the genre, the man whose words have lifted this too often wretched category to Olympian heights more than anyone cares to mention." -Harlan Ellison Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser discover how the sadness of The Executioner creates a macabre dance from the point of view of the choreographer. Beauties and beasts explain the dual nature of all life’s creatures. And trapped in The Shadowland, our dogmatic duo find the duality of swords and needles, maps and territories, girls and demons…and gods, they learn of the mischievous vanity of the gods. Lost at sea, Gray Mouser becomes a natural philosopher, drifting, captive of the Great Equatorial Current. He wonders about fire and ice, about women and men until they arrive at Rime Isle, a tragic comedy of a place, wandering gods and restless mortals, a comedy with puppets and puppet-masters.

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Bookseller: Riverwood's Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12306
Title: Swords And Ice Magic
Author: Fritz Leiber,
Format/Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Sixth Printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0441791786
ISBN 13: 9780441791781
Publisher: Ace
Place of Publication: New York, New York
Date Published: 1982
Keywords: 0441791786
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction - Fantasy; Vintage PB''s - Fantasy;

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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