The Sixties Catalogue

75 J u l y 2 0 2 0 “My Favorite Of My Own Books”: Inscribed By Roger Zelazny 73. 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). Book fine; lightest edge-wear to about-fine dust jacket. “No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”