Two Sought Adventure Exploits Of Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser Leiber, Fritz

First State binding of black cloth with red lettering as per Currey (Currey Letter A). The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean condition, but has bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber. They are the protagonists of what are probably Leiber's best-known stories. One of his motives in writing them was to have a couple of fantasy heroes closer to true human nature than the likes of Howard's Conan the Barbarian or Burroughs's Tarzan. Fafhrd is a very tall (nearly seven feet) and strong northern barbarian, skilled at both swordsmanship and singing; the Mouser is a small (not much more than five feet) mercurial thief, gifted and deadly at swordsmanship (often using a sword in one hand and a long dagger or main-gauche in the other) , and a former wizard's apprentice who retains some skill at magic. Fafhrd talks like a romantic, but his strong practicality usually wins through, while the cynical-sounding Mouser is prone to showing strains of sentiment at unexpected times." (from Wikipedia)