Sanctuary: Thieves' world, Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn, Shadows of sanctuary

First edition. Dust jacket has edge wear and a faded spine; is now in a new removable protective cover. Grey boards, with pink printing on black spine, bumped. Illustrated end papers (maps); pages clean and unmarked. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of Science Fiction Book Club) hard cover with dust jacket; July 1982 first edition, first printing (code M27); SFBC #5138, 600 pages, cover art by Walter Velez. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") This is the first and only hardcover edition. It collects the first three Thieves' World anthologies, originally published in paperback: Thieves' World, Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn, and Shadows of Sanctuary. Contains 22 stories of heroic fantasy by Poul Anderson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Brunner, C J Cherryh, Philip Jose Farmer, Joe Haldeman, Vonda McIntyre, Andrew Offut and others. Stories: The Gate of the Flying Knives, by Poul Anderson; Blood Brothers; by Joe Haldeman; Looking for Satan, by Vonda N. McIntyre; The Secret of the Blue Star, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Myrtis, by Christine DeWees; The Price of Doing Business, by Robert Asprin; Shadowspawn, by Andrew J. Offutt; Shadow's Pawn, by Andrew J. Offutt; The Face of Chaos, by Lynn Abbey; Sentences of Death, by John Brunner; To Guard the Guardians, by Robert Asprin; Vashanka's Minion, by Janet Morris; The Dream of the Sorceress, by A. E. van Vogt; The Fruit of Enlibar, by Lynn Abbey; Goddess, by David Drake; Spiders of the Purple Mage, by Philip Jose Farmer; A Man and His God, by Janet Morris; Then Azyuna Danced, by Lynn Abbey; The Rhinoceros and the Unicorn, by Diana L. Paxson; The Vivisectionist, by Andrew J. Offutt; A Gift in Parting, by Robert Asprin; Ischade, by C. J. Cherryh. Also includes maps of Thieves' World, introductions, and essays.