I am Legend. by MATHESON, Richard - 1970

New York: Walker and Company, 1970. Surviving the pandemic First hardback edition, first printing, with the author's signature mounted on a slip and loosely inserted.
I am Legend, first appearing in paperback in 1954, was a highly influential novel in the "Last Man" genre, telling the story of the sole survivor of an apocalyptic pandemic which turns humans into vampires. The inspiration for at least three films, in 2012 the book was awarded the special Vampire Novel of the Century Award by the Horror Writers Association. Octavo. Original white cloth, spine lettered in black, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine ends a touch rubbed, the binding otherwise bright and sharp, faint peripheral toning to contents, else clean. A near-fine copy in fresh jacket, a hint of rubbing and toning to extremities, price-clipped. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction 1126.