OUR LADY OF DARKNESS

First hardcover edition with these illustrations, first printing. Signed by the author of the introduction, Michael Shea. Original quarter black faux leather over illustrated paper covered boards, with titles in silver to the spine. Top edge burgundy. Marbled endpapers. Burgundy ribbon page marker. Illustrated with 12 black and white drawings by John Stewart. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Clear acetate dustwrapper, as issued.

Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies, this example is numbered 47 and signed by Michael Shea in black ink on the colophon. Leiber has often written of the Dark Lady, and the culmination of this work is this superb novel, originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1977. In the concept of paramentals, Leiber makes his definitive statement on alienation within the urban environment and the capacity of concrete, steel, and glass to suck up miseries and spew forth monsters.