OUR LADY OF DARKNESS

First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Richard Powers illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm with a slight lean to the spine, a little dustiness to the very edges of the boards and a tiny bump to the bottom corner of the upper board. The contents, with moderate spotting to the closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, creased and toned dustwrapper that has some indentations and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Not price-clipped ($7.95 on the front flap).

A semi-autobiographical urban fantasy novel set in San Francisco about an alcoholic weird-fiction writer who unearths a series of occult texts in the city's second hand book shops. It was originally serialised in a shorter form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1977 under the title "The Pale Brown Thing". Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.