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The Swords of Lankhmar (The Fifth Book of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser - Swords Series)
by Fritz Leiber
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0583118178
- ISBN 13
- 9780583118170
- Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Mayflower, 1970. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book 1979 reprint . Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 222 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; . ISBN: 0583118178. ISBN/EAN: 9780583118170. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 031989. . 9780583118170
Synopsis
"Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times." Edmond Cooper, Sunday Times"Fritz Leiber is universally acknowledged to be among its (science fiction and fantasy) three or four all-time titans. If you are already familiar with Fritz Leiber, you know you have a treat in store. If it will be your first encounter with him, I envy you." Poul Anderson, in The Wizard of NehwonDrawing many of his own themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he would help create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. 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 Gray Mouser 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.The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city of characteristically plagued by rats. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard a grain ship on its journey. Along the way the rats on board stage a rebellion and threaten to take the ship until a two-headed sea monster saves the day. If only there were two-headed sea monsters everywhere Lankhmar would be safe too. Alas, upon returning to the city, Lankhmar is controlled by rats. It is a city known for its thieves and swine, but even the city's muddiest bottom feeders had never seen pillaging and plundering like this. And only the sorcerers Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes can scare this scourge. Mouser must shrink into the rat's world and Fafhrd must unleash the feared feline War Cats. Then the fun really begins.
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- Bookseller
- H4o Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031989
- Title
- The Swords of Lankhmar (The Fifth Book of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser - Swords Series)
- Author
- Fritz Leiber
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0583118178
- ISBN 13
- 9780583118170
- Publisher
- Mayflower
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB69 Science Fiction & Fantasy Science Fiction & Fantasy; . The Swords of Lankhmar The Fifth Book of Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser Swords Series Fritz Leiber
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction & Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About H4o Books
Online only dealership established in 2005. We have a varied general stock but specialise in Military and other History, Modern Fiction and Science Fiction, and Children's books
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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