March 2021 Catalogue

61 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 Inscribed By Roger Zelazny 60. ZELAZNY, Roger. Lord of Light. Garden City, 1967. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7900. Click for more info First edition of the paramount Hugo Award-winning novel by Zelazny—“a storyteller without peer” (George R.R. Martin)—inscribed: “To Bob S—My favorite of my own books. Roger Zelazny.” A splendid copy. Winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula awards, Zelazny was “a leading and representative figure of the U.S. New Wave.” In the 1960s he was swiftly “established as a major science fiction writer. He remains so today” (Clareson II:180). Awarded the 1968 Hugo for Best Novel, Lord of Light is “his most sustained single tale, richly conceived and plotted, exhilarating throughout” (Clute & Nichols, 1366-67). With laid-in one-page typed letter from the recipient, dated October 15, 1992, unsigned, in which rare book dealer Robert Schulman writes of his immense admiration for Zelazny and asks if he would inscribe “my (his) three best Zelazny books.” Book fine; lightest edge-wear to about-fine dust jacket.