by L. Sprague De Camp

Introduction by Poul Anderson

Dust jacket art by Richard V. Corben

Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1978).

First edition, first printing.

An exclusive first edition publication by Nelson Doubleday/Science Fiction Book Club.

The book was later published in paperback, three months after this first edition, by Del Rey/Ballantine with different cover art.

Contains publisher's first printing number code "I03" to page 300, indicating January 1978, code"2164" to the rear dust jacket flap, "Book Club Edition" to the jacket's front inner flap, and "Jacket painting by Richard V. Corben" to the rear inner flap.

An outstanding collection comprising six short stories, two essays, three poems, and eight novelettes by the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author.

The themes include time travel, dinosaurs, dragons, aliens, ghosts, Neaderthal men, labor issues, hard science, and more.

Outer page edges lightly foxed, lower spine edge slightly bumped, else very good plus to near fine in taupe boards with blue embossed titles to the spine, sewn binding; in a very good plus to near fine dust jacket with a few tiny tears to the lower shelf-edges, light rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges, and a mild rub-line to the upper spine panel; original first printing code "2164" printed to the rear inner flap.

Presentable.

Octavo; 301 pages.

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