I AM LEGEND: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Springfield, PA: Gaunlet Publicarions, 1995. First hardcover edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine. Item #55104
ISBN: 1887368019
Number 450 of 500 numbered copies signed on a special limitation page by Richard Matheson, by Dan Sommons and George Clyaton Johnson who wrote the introductions, and by Dennis Etchison, who wrote the afterword . A modern science ficition horror classic, filmed faithfully to the book in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price, and remade less true in 1971 as The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston. This is Matheson's attempt to give a scientific explanation for vampirism. Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 3-120. "One of the central novels in the shaping of contemporary horror fiction. A primary influence and inspiration for George Romero's The Night of the Living Dead." Barron: Horror Literature, *4-217. Light ghost from bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with just a hint of wear at the head of the spine panel. A very attractive copy. Bound in full red leather lettered in gilt, housed within the publisher red leather slipcase with tiny ding. An as new copy.
Price: $600.00