Book Club edition. 244pp. Quarter bound in black cloth over pebble grey cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth very gently rounded at spine base else volume is neat. clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, very slightly bumped on extreme edges, Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. slightly shelf worn.
Award winning American science fiction and fantasy writer, Fritz Leiber (died 1992) was heavily influenced by H P Lovecraft and closely followed the work of Carl Jung . His writing increasingly explored the ideas of anima and the shadow.