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Fritz Leiber. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, WI, Sauk City, WI, 1947.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1947. First Edition, Black Hardcover, no DJ, x + 237 pp. Leiber's first book; 9 short stories and a short novel (a Fafhrd & Gray Mouser "Ancient Adventure" with special intro by Leiber). No just jacket but the DJ panel with info about book and author is pasted onto front & back pasted endpapers. FFEP has a previous owner's name, address and date (8/6/55) inside of browned tape impressions, and my name stamp. Interior is unmarked and very good except for usual age toning. Black covers are good with a bit of blunting at top and bottom of spine and very slight blunting at corners. Gold print on spine faded as usual, but clearly legible. One small 1/16" chip and 1/2" scruff mark on front cover. Still, a good, true 1st of a classic book.
Seller: JAC Books, Cortland, NY, U.S.A.
Leiber, Jr. , Fritz. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1947.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Originally priced at $3.00/black cloth with gold lettering on spine in illustrated black & blue jacket with white and blue let-; Light foxing fep ; 237 pages; Tering/jacket in mylar/slight tear at top spine/residual glue stains on end pages
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First ed. Good/Good condition, over all wear to book and dustjacket, yellowing to front and rear gutters. Dustjacket very worn and chipped along top and bottom edges and spine, edges of dustjacket flaps yellowed.
Seller: Rob & June Edwards, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber, Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book and dust jacket have minor wear. First edition. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***
Seller: The Book Files, Broken Arrow, OK, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. The author's first book. "Leiber was the most stylish of the Weird Tales writers." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-126. Tymm: Horror Literature 4-146. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature # 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #67. Some toning to text block, staining to paste downs from glue degradation, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear to the spine ends with a small chip at the head, rubbing to upper right front corner tip, several small stains to front panel and staining and toning to rear panel. (25666)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz, Jr.. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947., 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Ronald Clyne jacket. First edition. First Book. [3084 copies]. Holliston Black Novelex. 12mo. pp. x, 237, [1] colophon. Very Good/Good/Unclipped price ($3.00) in mylar. Toning at extremities, rubbing to spine gilt and lower edge. Jacket is rubbed at folds, caps and edges with some shallow chipping and tears with price sticker remnant to upper right jacket corner. Jacket rear is soiled overall with toned fold line. Nine short stories and a novel, only Arkham title.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber, Jr. (First Edition) A firm square copy. Owner's bookplate and name to front pastedown. Bright jacket cover, slight spinefade and slight sunning to back cover and flap edges, a half-inch closed tear to cover bottom. Original $3.00 price intact on flap. Clear protective cover. Black Novelex. Limited to 3000 copies. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A collection of a novel and nine short stories with macabre and horror themes.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
(Arkham House) Leiber, Fritz Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of his first book. 1 vols. 8vo. First book. Bleiler 1002; Bleiler "Writers" p. 938; Currey p. 308; Derleth "Thirty Years of Arkham House" 26 Original black cloth, some light wear, original dust jacket with illustration by Ronald Clyne, some rubbing, darkening and short tears, price clipped, some browning, mostly of endpapers, else a good copy
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket. Limited 1/3000 copies. x, 237 pages; jacket by Ronald Clyne. Leiber's first Arkham collection and the first Arkham title to be sold to the paperback publishers, Ballantine Books. A clean, tight copy in a lightly rubbed, unclipped ($3.00) jacket. Rear jacket panel shows some expected toning and the rubbing is most pronounced along jacket edges. Remains a collector grade, price intact copy of an early Arkham title. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. The author's first book. "Leiber was the most stylish of the Weird Tales writers." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-126. Tymm: Horror Literature 4-146. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature # 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #67. Some toning to text block, staining to paste downs from binding glue degradation, lower left front corner bruised, a very good copy in a very good or better dust jacket with mild rubbing to the corner tips and spine ends, small rub mark to upper right front panel. (27087)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection; author's first book. VG; 3 of four tips are bumped; in VG jacket; large chip at head of spine; chips at three of tips; wear along spine folds.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Brief signed inscription by Leiber to author/editor/anthologist Marvin Kaye on the front free endpaper: "For Marvin Kake, / With best wishes / Fritz Leiber / Oct. 29, 1982." The author's first book. 3084 copies printed. Collects ten weird tales and heroic fantasies. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-126. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 67 (for story "Adept's Gambit"). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 638. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-146. A very good copy in poor dust jacket which is chipped at edges and separated along the front spine fold. (#167981)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
LEIBER, Fritz Jr.. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS.. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Authors first book, limited to 3084 copies. Excessive tanning to fixed endpapers and gutters with some migration of the tanning into first couple leaves, VERY GOOD with bright spine gilt. VG DJ with some edge wear, small area of color loss at base of spine.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$174.00 + shipping
Description: NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS, Arkham House, 1947, first edition, light scattered foxing to the t.p.e.'s, considerable off-setting to the end-papers and paste-downs no doubt due to the publishers choice of paper and paste, else fine in like bright dust-wrapper. His first book. Author's SIGNED bookplate laid in.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing, one of 3084 copies; A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better dust jacket. An excellent collector's copy of this author's first novel from Arkham House; a must have for the horror collector or the Arkham completist! This book is in near fine condition with only trivial shelf wear, some light glue residue to the free papers, and a PO signature and bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows only light rubbing to the spine ends, corners, and edges, some mild creasing to the folds, and some minor foxing to the flap edges, else near fine or better. Not price clipped ($3.00 intact), not remaindered, not ex-library; in archival protection and will ship in a sturdy box.
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fritz Leiber, Jr. Night's Black Agents. 1947, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. First Edition, Original Dust Jacket. 237 pp, 7.5 x 5.25", 12mo. In good condition. Dust jacket presents well - edges are lightly scuffed, head and tail of spine are chipped, & cream colored rear cover exhibits tanning from sun-exposure. Black cloth boards rubbed at edges - front board's bottom corner bumped. Head and tail of spine rubbed; gilt lettering bright and clean. Previous ownership bookplate found on front end-page: Ex-Libris King Lawrence Parker. Normal toning throughout text-block, mostly to edges of leaves. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber is one of the fathers of sword and sorcery. Leiber was heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Graves, John Webster, and Shakespeare in the first two decades of his career. Leiber also liked cats, which are featured in many of his stories. His first stories in the 1930s and 40s were inspired by Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. 1947 marked the publication of his first book, Night's Black Agents, a short story collection containing seven short stories grouped as "Modern Horrors,' one as Transition, and two as Ancient Adventures: The Sunken Land and Adept's Gambit, which are both short stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. First Edition, in Good Condition. Gift Quality! RAREA1947CGHX 04/24 - HK1411
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz.. Night's Black Agents.. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1947.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Limited Edition--3000 copies. Fine in black cloth, black and grey-blue dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 237pp. A collection of Leiber's early Weird Tales stories. Q15494
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1947.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case (NOT A BOOK). No Binding. First edition Clamshell Case. Fritz Leiber. Nights Black Agent. Custom Clamshell Case Only. Sauk City, [1947, Book Date]: Excellent Custom Clamshell Case [Not A Book] For The First Edition. Elegant Black Nuba with Custom Gilt-Stamped Titles to spine. Embossed multi-layered, [sculpted] illustration inspired by the design of Ronald Clyne. Finished in rich Black velour on the interior. A superb & unique protective clamshell case for the first edition. 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case (NOT A BOOK).
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Leiber, Fritz, Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1947.
Price: US$231.75 + shipping
Description: Small Octavo. 237 pages. The author's first book limited to 3000 copies. Jaffrey #29 states 3084 copies were actually printed. After selling some of his early articles in Unknown--Weird Tales, Ballantine books brought out Tales from Night's Black Agents, the reprint edition lacking "Adept's Gambit". Unfortunately, they mistakenly misspelled Leiber's last name as Lieber on the title page which led him to buy copies whenever possible and would correct them in ink and signed them. A near fine copy bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, one corner slightly bumped, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Ronald Clyne, lettered in blue and white, toning to flap folds, light rubbing to spine, corners and front flap, some light toning or soiling to rear panel. A very nice copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz Jr.. Night's Black Agents (Signed). Arkham House, Sauk City, 1947.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Author's first book, 3000 copies printed, vg in vg dust jacket. Nice dust jacket by Ronald Clyne. Signed "Fritz Leiber 1979". (see pictures)
Seller: W. R. Slater - Books, Grants Pass, OR, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. First edition of the author's first book, signed by the author on the front free endpaper without inscription and dated Sept. 2, 1956. Dust jacket shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber (First Edition) Signed Tight copy. Sharp with exception of mild edgewear. Some minor fading to gilt. Two-inch tear to front cover. Minor wear. Minor tanning. Clear protective cover. Not price-clipped. First Edition. 237 pgs. $3.00 price point. One of 3084 copies printed. Gilt on spine. Black cloth cover.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber, Jr.. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, Sauk City, 1947.
Price: US$249.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A square solid tight very carefully read possibly unread copy. Age toning to the text block edges, light foxing to end papers front and rear, light board edge wear, light rubbing to boards. The 3.00 priced jacket has some light rubbing, lighyt edge wear, light age toning, fading to extremities. 3000 copies. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY.
Seller: Pat Cramer, Bookseller, Lewisville, TX, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. 3084 copies printed. Collects eight weird tales and two heroic fantasies, both featuring Fafhred and the Grey Mouser. The seven stories featured in "modern horrors," include "Smoke Ghost," "The Automatic Pistol" and "The Hound," three classics of urban horror, a sub-genre that Leiber helped shape. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-126. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 67 (for story "Adept's Gambit"). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 638. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-146. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. A lovely copy. (#159994)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber, Jr. (First Edition) A firm square copy with minor bumping to upper corner tips. Bright jacket cover, minor rubbing to extremities and two half-inch closed tears to back edge. price-clipped. Clear protective cover. Black Novelex. Limited to 3000 copies. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. A collection of a novel and nine short stories with macabre and horror themes.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1947.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. The author's first book. "Leiber was the most stylish of the Weird Tales writers." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-126. Tymm: Horror Literature 4-146. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature # 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock: Fantasy: The 100 Best Books #67. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing mainly to corner tips and spine ends, small closed tear to upper rear panel and moderate dust soiling to rear panel. (22716)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz.. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House., Sauk City:, 1947.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Author's first book, 3084 copies printed. Previous owner's bookplate to the front free endpage. Some offsetting to the front and rear endpages. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber, Jr. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$337.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Shelf 1112 Clean and tight; paper lightly browned, a bit more so to end papers; corners very lightly bumped; signed by author with inscription, " Dear Damon, May we all grow young.but not too young. Fritz Jan. 10, 1964"; A very important association copy; signed to Damon Knight, author, editor, critic; Hugo Award Winner, founder of SFWA, co-founder of Clarion Writers Workshop and a Grand Master, inductee to SF Hall of Fame 2003; purchased from Scott Edwards at Odyssey Shop who was selling his Damon Knight collection; DJ has wear to surface, edges and corners including browning, areas of rubbing, small chips at top and bottom of front flap fold and top of rear flap fold, quarter inch closed tear to top edge of front, very small chip and rubbing at top of spine strip, one inch closed tear to top of rear near spine strip, areas of rubbing to bottom of spine strip, half inch closed tear to top of rear flap fold, one eighth inch closed tear to top edge of rear flap fold; two pencil tip sized holes and a thin half inch long hole on front near bottom edge; Not a book club (BC)copy. Not ex library, not a remainder.
Seller: BookManBookWoman Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Fritz Leiber. Night's Black Agents. Arkham House, 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Horror collection. Author's first book. SIGNED and inscribed "For Tony, very best wishes". VGF; light offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers; in price-clipped jacket; light wear to head, heel and tips; slight soiling to white back cover.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Leiber on the front free endpaper. The author's first book. 3084 copies printed. Collects eight weird tales and two heroic fantasies, both featuring Fafhred and the Grey Mouser. The seven stories featured in "modern horrors," include "Smoke Ghost," "The Automatic Pistol" and "The Hound," three classics of urban horror, a sub-genre that Leiber helped shape. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-126. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 67 (for story "Adept's Gambit"). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 638. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-146. Endpapers darkened, else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a couple of mild rubs to black background ink at corner tips and uniform tanning to rear panel. Presents well overall. (#162642)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Leiber on the title page. The author's first book. 3084 copies printed. Collects eight weird tales and two heroic fantasies, both featuring Fafhred and the Grey Mouser. The seven stories featured in "modern horrors," include "Smoke Ghost," "The Automatic Pistol" and "The Hound," three classics of urban horror, a sub-genre that Leiber helped shape. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-126. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 67 (for story "Adept's Gambit"). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 638. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-146. Some darkening and spotting to paste-downs, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket (priced $3.00 on the front flap) with dust soiling to rear panel. (#172804)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Leiber, Fritz. NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Leiber to influential F&SF critic, editor and publisher David G. Hartwell on the front free endpaper with a short creepy quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse." The author's first book. 3084 copies printed. Collects eight weird tales and two heroic fantasies, both featuring Fafhred and the Grey Mouser. The seven stories featured in "modern horrors," include "Smoke Ghost," "The Automatic Pistol" and "The Hound," three classics of urban horror, a sub-genre that Leiber helped shape. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-126. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1002. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 67 (for story "Adept's Gambit"). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 638. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-146. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with rubbing along spine folds and front flap fold and some tanning and dust soiling to rear panel. An attractive copy. (#154702)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.