Amber Nine, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING.One of the earliest copies, if not the first copy, from the first edition print run. Roger Zelazny was my favorite author. At the conventions, I was always asking Mr. Zelazny where he thought I might find more scarce Zelazny items (his first answer was fanzines, then the hard to find first edition of Nine Princes, then in later years the Cheap Street publications). This copy of Nine Princes Mr.Zelazny had been sent by Doubleday(stamped on a blank page "From the library of Doubleday and Company") and he gave it to me and signed it (his name only) on the title page.The original DJ with N.P.I.A.$4.50 price This copy of the first edition differs from all the other firsts I have seen over the years.The first several pages are a heavier stock of paper; there are four blank pages leading up to the title page; there is no half title page; and there are two blank pages at the end. I am selling my personal collection of Zelazny books and correspondence.The book has slightly bumped rubbed corners, two white dots on front cover and rear cover, spine top pushed, and a repaired cut mark to the rear gutter (about one inch). The dust jacket is complete but has moderate wear to corners and edges with three very small quarter inch by eighth inch chips at edge. A conservative grade is VERY GOOD PLUS.Will require several hundred dollars extra shipping for international orders. Shelf 1001.Not a book club copy. No previous owner name, no marks, no underlining, not price clipped, not a remainder. Signed by Author(s).

First editions. Octavo, six volumes, jacket illustrations by Michael Whelan, cloth. Signed label by Zelazny laid in to volume one. "This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny's known short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities." - from "A Word From the Editors," Volume One. Contents include original publication information, some have notes and some have "A Word From Zelazny." A fine set in fine dust jackets. (26013).

First edition. Octavo, illustration by Amelia S. Edwards, cloth. Label affixed to front free end paper with signed inscription by Zelazny to noted publisher and collector Gerry de la Ree. The first volume in the Amber series. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-388. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1143. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 29-35. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 180-82]. Usual glue bleed stain along gutter margins (common in Doubleday books of this period), a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. (33345).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Roger Zelazny on the title page and inscribed "with all my good wishes" to previous owners. [iv], 188 pp. Bound in publisher's cobalt blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and light rubbing to extremities. Printer's glue visible at head and tail of spine; discoloration from same to endpaper gutters. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling, and toning, moderate rubbing, and a 1 1/8 inch tear at head of spine. The first book of the Chronicles of Amber series. First editions are scarce thanks to the publisher's accidental pulping of unsold copies.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First British Edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Roger Zelazny on the title page. Bound in publisher's light orange cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with light lean to binding, minor soiling to cloth, slightly bumped corners, and moderate foxing and staining to textblock edges. Former owner's initial stamp to title page and light toning to contents. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning, light rubbing and minor wear to edges. The first book in the popular Chronicles of Amber series.

First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. The first book in the Chronicles of Amber series is scarce in part because the publishers accidentally pulped much of the print run when they went to destroy remaindered copies of Zelazny's previous book, Creatures of Light and Darkness. Nine Princes and Amber was the source material for the popular video game of the same name and had a "profound effect" (Hartwell, p. 17) on the development of Dungeons & Dragons. Currey, p. 571. David G. Hartwell, "On Roger Zelazny", The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vol. 3, 2009. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Spine ends bumped, slight silverfishing to edges, wear to corners of front board, offsetting to front free endpaper; lightly toned jacket with slight loss at foot of spine panel, a few nicks to head of spine and corners, rear panel faintly marked, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.