Description

Hardcovers, black cloth lettered in silver on spines, in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jackets. 182 and 208 pages respectively. Illustrated by Jeff K. Potter. Stated first editions, limited to 1,000 copies each, volume I being published in 1979, volume II in 1980. The first volume contains a foreword and seven tales, the second contains the remaining six tales featuring Munn now famous protagonists Wladislaw Brenryk and the “master,” Many of the stories first appeared in the magazine Weird Tales or in the Lost Fantasies anthology series edited by Robert Weinberg. The first volume is subtitled ‘In the Tomb of the Bishop’ and the second is subtitled ‘The Master Goes Home’. No previous ownership marks. Both books and clean, square, fresh and unmarked. Dust-jacket on volume I is clean, with no tears or chips, volume II’s jacket shows only minor edge-wear along top of rear panel and to tips. Both jackets now protected in clear acetate covers. A very nice, complete set of these 13 horror tales, in Grant’s limited editions. A near fine set in very good to near fine jackets.