Night's Black Agents

Overview:

• Title: Night's Black Agents
• Author: Fritz Leiber
• Year: 1980
• ISBN-10: 0839826400
• Publisher: Gregg Press
• Price: $14.95
• Pages: xv+[7]+275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: Night's Black Agents
• Notes:
  • "First Printing, September, 1980" stated on the copyright page.
  • The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1980), the ISBN (0-8398-2640-0), and the LCCN (80-17010).
  • No dust jacket, as issued. Red buckram with titles in gold on black background.
  • No printed price. Price from Gregg Press catalog. An ad in Locus #237 (September 1980) states the price as $15.00.
  • "With the exception of the Introduction, this is a complete photographic reprint of a work first published in New York by Berkley Publishing Corporation in 1978. The trim size of the original paperback was 4 by 6 3/4 inches." stated on the copyright page.
  • The Berkley edition added two stories to the 1947 Arkham House first edition. It also reverses the order in which the various sections were published in the Arkham House edition, but keeps the same order of the stories within the sections.
  • Leiber's 1947 introduction is on an unnumbered page, but according to the table of contents it's on page "xi", which is the page given in the 1978 Berkley edition. It has been recorded as starting on page [6] in this record in order to keep it separate from the new 1980 introduction which runs on roman-numeraled pages "v" through "xv".
  • There is a full-page photograph of the author on page ii credited to Jay Kay Klein on the copyright page.