Fritz Leiber The Pale Brown Thing 1st HC Mylar Swan River Limited 1/350 LN 2016

by Fritz Leiber

$250 · Offered by eBay

First edition

Collector Features & Identification ​Author: Fritz Leiber (Introduction by Donald Sidney-Fryer) ​Book: The Pale Brown Thing ​Publisher & Year: Swan River Press (2016) ​Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket ​Edition: 1st Edition (Swan River Press Limited Hardcover) ​Limitation: Strictly limited to 350 copies. ​Cover Artist & Design: Cover artwork by Jason Zerrillo; Dust jacket design by Meggan Kehrli. ​Identification: This is an exceptionally rare, highly sought-after limited edition hardcover of Fritz Leiber's The Pale Brown Thing, published by the acclaimed Irish boutique publisher, Swan River Press. ​This true first printing possesses the mandatory markers: Limited to a single run of 350 copies. The inner dust jacket flap is unpriced (standard for this release), featuring the ISBN at the bottom left. The copyright page verifies the 2016 Swan River Press publication. ​Bound in premium black boards. ​The front cover features a striking, textured design of a hand seemingly made of newspaper reaching out, accented by faint red hues. ​The paste-downs are pitch black. ​Genre: Supernatural Horror, Weird Fiction, Urban Fantasy ​Topics: Franz Westen, San Francisco, Paramental Entities, Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Occultism. ​Exact Page Count: 143 Pages ​About the Book (Synopsis) ​First serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1977, The Pale Brown Thing is the original, shorter version of Fritz Leiber's World Fantasy Award-winning supernatural ma

• Publisher: Swan River Press
• Year: 2016
• Condition: Fine

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