CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS

First UK edition, first printing. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt sharp, the contents clean throughout. In the very near fine, bright dustwrapper, a touch creased to the upper spine tip and corners. Not price-clipped (30s / £1.50 net to the front flap). A lovely copy.

"From the darkest and most hopeless of worlds, the House of the Dead, Anubis, Death's master, restores life to his servant and sends him on a mission of vengeance." Zelazny's 'Creatures of Light and Darkness', first published in the US in 1969, began life as an experiment which the author never intended to publish. The novel is written in the present tense throughout, with a chapter in verse and a concluding chapter laid out as a play script. When Zelazny told his friend and fellow author Samuel R. Delany about the work, Delany persuaded him to publish it. It is dedicated "To Chip Delany, Just Because...".