Death’s Master *Signed, Limited #154/500 by Tanith Lee
Death’s Master *Signed, Limited #154/500 by Tanith Lee
Oak Park, IL: Highland Press, (1984). Limited, Signed, #154/500 copies. First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 327 pp. Original shiny black boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($45.00) dust-jacket. As new. Trivial wear to slipcase corners, edges. Signed by the author Tanith Lee, and illustrators and designers, Michael Whelan and Randy Broecker.
Dust Jacket: Fine
Hardcover: Fine
Slipcase: Fine
“Death's Master is a fantasy novel by British writer Tanith Lee, the second book in her series Tales from the Flat Earth. It won the British Fantasy Award for best novel of 1979. The lesbian queen Narasen is forced by a curse to become pregnant in order to save her city. After fruitless sex with many men, she realizes that she cannot lift the curse until she has sex with a dead man. She makes a pact with Uhlume, Lord Death, and brings this about. Her child, Simmu, is beautiful and can change easily from male to female. Narasen is assassinated. Simmu, only a few days old, sees Death come for Narasen and forms a permanent hatred for death. Simmu is raised by the minor demons called Eshva, then by priests at a temple.”