Night's Master (Signed and Lettered Presentation Copy)

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LEE, Tanith (illus. Barclay Shaw [cover] Randy Broecker [interiors]). Night's Master. Oak Park, Illinois: Highland Press, 1984. Slim Octavo. Publisher's cloth with magenta spine lettered in yellow. Illustrated endpapers. Original unclipped pictorial dust jacket (price $35.00 on front flap). Cloth slipcase. pp. [i: limitation], [v], 162, [ii]. Interior illustrations by Randy Broecker throughout; dust jacket illustration by Barclay Shaw. First hardcover edition. First edition thus. Limited to 526 copies in total: 500 numbered copies for sale, and 26 lettered presentation copies. This copy lettered G — one of the 26 non-sale presentation copies. Signed by the author, the cover illustrator, and the interior illustrator on the special limitation page. Not for public sale at time of publication. Tanith Lee (1947–2015) was among the most prolific and the most gifted British fantasy writers of the twentieth century — the author of over ninety novels and three hundred short stories, a winner of multiple British Fantasy Awards including Best Novel, and the recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2013. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (for Death's Master in 1980, the second volume in the series of which Night's Master is the first), and her prose style — ornate, sensuous, rhythmically assured, capable of moving between tenderness and terror with complete command — is among the most distinctive in modern fantasy literature. She

• Binding: Hardcover

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