New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1977. First edition, first printing . Paperback. Near Fine. Ace Book number 79167-0 with $1.95 cover price. Sixth Fafhrd book. Cover illustration by Michael Whelan. A near fine, bright copy. Appears unread.

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"Wonderful, magical Fritz Leiber, before whom Bradbury and Sturgeon and Norton and Goldman and Barth and Vonnegut bow, not to mention Robinson, Busby, Anderson and even yours truly, the maddest egomaniac of them all. Fritz Leiber, very likely the best of all of us, the man who has won more awards than anyone else in the genre, the man whose words have lifted this too often wretched category to Olympian heights more than anyone cares to mention." -Harlan Ellison Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser discover how the sadness of The Executioner creates a macabre dance from the point of view of the choreographer. Beauties and beasts explain the dual nature of all life’s creatures. And trapped in The Shadowland, our dogmatic duo find the duality of swords and needles, maps and territories, girls and demons…and gods, they learn of the mischievous vanity of the gods. Lost at sea, Gray Mouser becomes a natural philosopher, drifting, captive of the Great Equatorial Current. He wonders about fire and ice, about women and men until they arrive at Rime Isle, a tragic comedy of a place, wandering gods and restless mortals, a comedy with puppets and puppet-masters.

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Bookseller: Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 050662
Title: SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC
Author: Leiber, Fritz
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition, first printing
ISBN 10: 0441791662
ISBN 13: 9780441791668
Publisher: Ace Books, Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1977
Keywords: science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural
Bookseller catalogs: Paperback;

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