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Swords and Deviltry (The First Book of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser)
by Fritz Leiber
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 044179176X
- ISBN 13
- 9780441791767
- Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ace Books, 1970. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Later reprint . Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 254 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's address label. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; . ISBN: 044179176X. ISBN/EAN: 9780441791767. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 031985. . 9780441791767
Synopsis
Ramsey Campbell, one of England's most highly regarded British horror authors, called Fritz Leiber "the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction."Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he helped create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. 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.Swords and Deviltry, the first book of Leiber's landmark series, introduces us to a strange world where our two strangers find the familiar in themselves and discover the icy power of female magic. Three master-magician femme-fatales and a sprightly lad illuminate the bonds between father and son, the relationship between the bravado of the imagination, and the courage of fools.A hedge wizard explains the cold war between the sexes.Mouse and Fafhrd meet again and learn the truth of how Mouse became the Gray Mouser. Together they traverse the smoke and mirrors of Lankhmar learning more and more of the foggy world in which they live, mapping the sinister silent symptoms of the never-ending night-smog. They follow the night-smog's relation to the region's longing for larceny and the hazy opiate of vanity. Last but certainly not least, they experience the pleasures and pains of the City of Sevenscore Thousand Smokers that will lead them to countless more adventures and misadventures.
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- Bookseller
- H4o Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031985
- Title
- Swords and Deviltry (The First Book of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser)
- Author
- Fritz Leiber
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 044179176X
- ISBN 13
- 9780441791767
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB69 Science Fiction & Fantasy Science Fiction & Fantasy; . Swords and Deviltry The First Book of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser Fritz Leiber
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction & Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
H4o Books
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
About H4o Books
Online only dealership established in 2005. We have a varied general stock but specialise in Military and other History, Modern Fiction and Science Fiction, and Children's books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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