THE PURPLE PTERODACTYLS

First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Original purple faux leather with gilt titles to the spine and the publisher's logo in gilt to the upper board, in the Václav Váca illustrated dustwrapper and purple faux-leather slipcase. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm. There is a little faint, light spotting to the top edge of the closed text-block, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original dustwrapper featuring a wraparound illustration that is a touch rubbed at the extremities. Not price-clipped ($25 on the front flap). Housed in the clean and sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 200 copies, this example is numbered 38 and is signed by L. Sprague de Camp on the limitation page. A collection of short contemporary fantasy stories about Willy Newbury, a an ordinary gentleman banker who continuously stumbles across supernatural happenings.