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Fritz Leiber, Jr. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. E married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner. He cause of his death was given as "organic brain disease." Leiber’s own literary criticism, including several ground-breaking essays on Lovecraft, was collected in the volume Fafhrd and Me (1990).

(1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. He married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner.

He married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer.

In the annals of heroic fantasy one epic tale stands head and shoulders above the rest, spanning sixty years in the telling, the saga of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser has captivated fans ever since Fritz Leiber's first tale of the duo appeared in the August, 1939 issue of Unknown The story of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is among the most enduring in modern fantasy, and is releasing the first of what will be the definitive eight-volume set comprising not only all of the stories by Fritz Leiber (and his friend Harry Fischer), but also the brilliant epilogue to the series, Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey he fourth book in the series, Swords Against Wizardry , includes “In the Witch's Tent,” “Stardock,” “The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar,” and “The Lords of Quarmall.” In addition, there is a lengthy biographical piece, “Fafhrd & Me” by Fritz Leiber, three other short essays by Fritz Leiber, plus Leiber's obituaries of the Fischers, two essays by Harry O.

Fischer (including the rare “The Original Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser,” another essay by Franklin C ac Knight (“The Formative Years of Fafhrd and the Mouser”) and an interview with Fritz Leiber by Darrell Schweitzer from the First World Fantasy Convention, Providence, Rhode Island, on November 1, 1975! his book features an introduction by John Pelan and artwork by Jim & Ruth Keegan.

It is signed by both of them and also has a family-approved facsimile signature by Fritz Leiber t features four color interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, full color wraparound dustjacket, several black & white interior illustrations, and custom The book includes all of the stories that make up Swords Against Wizardry along with the bonus material mentioned above. edition information.

Edition Details

• Oversize signed edition is limited to 50 copies, each signed by John Pelan and Jim & Ruth Keegan.
• Bound in full black cloth, inset image on front board.
• Color illustrations.
• Introduction by John Pelan.
• Gorgeous dustjacket wrapped in Mylar protector.
• Top-edge stain.
• Two-color slipcase stamped on spine.
• Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.