I AM LEGEND by Matheson, Richard; Gaughan, Jack [jacket illustrator]; Hor, Lena Fong [jacket designer] - 1970 [1954]

New York: Walker and Company, 1970 [1954]. First Hardcover Edition. 8vo., 122 pp., VG/VG; white/blue/pink pictorial DJ with black lettering; age-toning/mild wear to DJ; price uncut "$4.95" to top right-hand corner of front flap; DJ protected by mylar; white cloth boards, black lettering to spine; virtually no shelfwear to boards, save for very mild age-toning to head and tail of spine and slight cocking to spine; navy blue top, stippled fore-edge, mild shelfwear/age-toning to text-block; signed by previous owner in blue ink to top of front paste-down; interior clean; a precursor to the zombie-vampire horror genre that popularized the concept of apocalyptic pandemics; LP consignment; shelved Case 8, Dupont. Full-priced Rockville.