Binding split. Book has considerable wear. No Highlighting or Underlining. Dust Jacket is missing.

Binding split. Book has considerable wear. No Highlighting or Underlining. Dust Jacket is missing.

Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1976. 193 pgs. First Edition/First

Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1976. 193 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn to the top edge of the front panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. It is 922 A. D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to their home. He is appalled by their customs—the gratuitous sexuality of their women, their disregard for cleanliness, and their cold-blooded sacrifices. As they enter the frozen, forbidden landscape of the North—where the day's length does not equal the night's, where after sunset the sky burns in streaks of color—Fadlan soon discovers that he has been unwillingly enlisted to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings, the monsters of the mist that devour human flesh. But just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.; 8.30 X 5.60 X 0.90 inches; 193 pages.