NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS

by Fritz Leiber

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. 3084 copies printed. Collects eight weird tales and two heroic fantasies, both featuring Fafhred and the Grey Mouser. The seven stories featured in modern horrors, include Smoke Ghost, The Automatic Pistol and The Hound, three classics of urban horror, a sub-genre that Leiber helped shape.

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