London: Faber and Faber. Poor in Poor dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 0571095542 . Ex-library. Binding poor. Text leaves wavy, affected in the past by dampness. Dust-jacket trimmed with loss of initial letters of each line from blurb on rear flap. Chips to dust-jacket. Library stamps, labels and markings. Loss of cloth along lower edges of boards. Paper tape reinforcement to gutters. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 187, [1 (blank)] pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 199 x 125mm. "'Creatures of Light and Darkness' (1969) specifically repeats some of the effects of 'Lord of Light' in a desolate galactic milieu haunted by warring Ancient Egyptian deities, in this case Equipoisally unexplained, a confusingness that F Brett Cox argues in Roger Zelazny (2021) deliberately Parodies the New Wave with which he had been uneasily associated." - John Clute in "SF Encyclopedia" (online, accessed March 2024). .

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Creatures of Light and Darkness is a 1969 science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny. It is currently out of print, and a reprint promised for the end of 2006 has not appeared. It has been reprinted so many times that a given copy has accumulated numerous typographical errors, due to re-keyboarding the entire text at each printing, with minimal proofreading and no editing. It shares this property with paperback reprints of the original Dune novel.

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Seller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Seller's Inventory #: 25694
Title: Creatures of Light and Darkness
Author: Zelazny, Roger
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Poor in Poor dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0571095542
ISBN 13: 9780571095544
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1970)
Keywords: 0571095542

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