NIFFT THE LEAN

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Signed by the author of the introduction, the afterword and the artists. Publisher's original black cloth with titles in orange to the spine, with illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Stanislav Dikolenko illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge pink. Red silk bookmark. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece by Michael Whelan and black and white plates by Francesco Giani throughout. With colour photographs of author in the afterword. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, and without fading, loss, or tears.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies, from which this example is numbered 130, and signed by the illustrators Stanislav Dikolenko, Michael Whelan, and Francesco Giani, author of the introduction Tim Powers, and author of the afterword Linda Shea (wife of the late author Michael Shea) in silver ink on the colophon. A facsimile of the author Michael Shea's signature in white is also present on the colophon. This expanded edition of 'Nifft the Lean' includes 'Shag Margold's Eulogy' in addition to all four original stories of Nifft the master thief, 'Come Then, Mortal - We Will Seek Her Soul', 'The Pearls of the Vampire Queen', 'The Fishing of the Demon-Sea', and 'The Goddess in Glass'. 'Nifft the Lean' was first published in 1982 by DAW Books (New York), and went on to win the World Fantasy Award in the 'Best Novel' category in 1983.