Day By Night
New York: DAW Books, Inc., 1980. 1st Edition. 12mo, publisher’s stiff illustrated paper wraps, all edges stained yellow.
Inscribed paperback original first edition of British scifi, fantasy, and horror writer Tanith Lee’s 1980 novel. One of the genre’s most prolific and imaginative authors, Lee penned more than ninety novels and three-hundred short stories, becoming the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1980. Set on a planet divided between perpetual daylight and eternal darkness, Day by Night follows a storyteller whose imagined tales of civilization on the opposite hemisphere become uncannily close to reality. The cover illustration, notably incorporating a portrait of Lee herself, is by celebrated fantasy artist Don Maitz, whose work adorned books by Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, and Michael Moorcock. Issued as number 408 in the publisher’s catalog. Inscribed by Lee to the title page: "To Alina / With love / Tanith 1981." First printing, with complete number row to copyright page. Fine. Item #13673
$150.00