Farewell Lankhmar: Book Four of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Farewell to Lankhmar (aka "The Knight and Knave of Swords", The Lankhmar/Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series volume four) by Fritz Leiber Hardcover First White Wolf Edition - First Printing Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1998. Stunning jacket cover art by Mike Mignola. Black cloth boards, $21.99 cover price. Appears to have been issued in far fewer numbers than its predecessors "Ill Met in Lankhmar" and "Lean Times in Lankhmar".

Fine- in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Overall a nice smart copy with a few shortcomings, mainly remnants of a bookplate on the inner front board, tenderness to the lower front corner, and crinkling to the jacket mostly on the back and partially on the lower spine. Strangely doesn't show signs of reading wear but could have been better taken care of. Also, the last two volumes of the Lankhmar published by White Wolf appear to have been published in much smaller numbers in trade hardcover. Most fine copies are priced at $150, but I'm pricing mine at about half that because of the condition.

NOTE on the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser/Lankhmar editions: The first appearances of these characters were in the pulp magazines beginning in 1939 in "Unknown" magazine, around the time of The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. "Two Sought Adventure" was the first hardcover edition of the stories published by Gnome Press in 1958. Gregg Press issued the complete series (up until that point) but used the same cover artwork for all volumes! (A Gregg Press convention but doesn't make for great production value.) Even so, those sets tend to fetch $500+. After Leiber's passing in 1992, White Wolf began publishing the series in these wonderful hardcover editions with new artwork by Mike Mignola beginning with the first volume "Ill Met in Lankhmar". Still much better than the miserable Gregg Press editions in my opinion. Centipede Press has now taken up the series with yet new hardcover editions.

NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.

ALSO: The pictures are of the actual item for sale. (The pictures are NOT stock photos.)