I AM LEGEND
by Matheson, Richard
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel. (31232)
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Walker and Company, [1970]. First hardcover edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel. (31232). Octavo, boards. On a label affixed to the front free end paper this copy is inscribed and signed by Matheson to a well known early fan. "In a future world where a virus has infected nearly everyone with vampirism, mortal Robert Neville spends his nights defending his fortified bunker...and his days slaughtering sleeping vampires. Matheson's influential novel was one fo the first to propose a scientific rationale for vampirism." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-257. "One of the central novels in shaping contemporary horror fiction" - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-217. Made in to several mediocre feature films. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-720. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-257. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: The 100 Best Books 54. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 986-90. King list, p. 390. Winter List, p. 270.
Synopsis
I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction/horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the vampire genre as well as the zombie genre, in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease, and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31232
- Title
- I AM LEGEND
- Author
- Matheson, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel. (31232)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First hardcover edition
- Publisher
- Walker and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1970]
- Keywords
- Film Source . Horror . SF . Signed
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
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