Lord of Light.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, [1968]. First Book Club Edition, first printing. Full blue buckram, top edge stained orange, in Howard Bernstein dust jacket. 257 pp. 8.5" x 5.75" Owner blind stamp and inked name ffep, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears front panel, touch of wear extremities, in mylar cover. Item #244398
THE DIVINE (AND ALIEN) BUDDHA
Where Hinduism goes, Buddhism must follow, and the planet Urath is no exception. Technologically reincarnated, a crew from Earth rules the commoners as Hindu gods for centuries until Sam is reborn—first as Prince Siddhartha and then as the Divine Buddha—to offer his people a way out. Roger Zelzny plays expert mythmaker in his Hugo-winner and Nebula-nominee, twisting colonial Indian history into the "color and smoke and folktale" that ushered in New Wave science fiction.
Presented here is a first Book Club Edition with corresponding gutter code I43 (contra Levack). Includes Zelazny's newspaper obituary laid in.
Fun fact: the Lord of Light's abandoned movie sets were used to rescue staff of the US Embassy during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
[Levack 25b].
Price: $650.00