Day by Night

by Tanith Lee (signed label)
Cover by Don Maitz

DAW Books First Edition
DAW Book Number 408

Description: Mass market paperback book published by DAW Books in 1980. The copyright page states 'First Printing, November 1980' and the printing status bar is complete, making this a first printing. The back cover also states 'A DAW Books Original'. A paperback original. Label signed by Tanith Lee without inscription or personalization applied to the title page.

From the Back Cover: The planet did not rotate. On one side eternal day, the sun shining down hotly from the center of the heavens. On the opposite side eternal night, the stars glowing cold in the black and airless sky.

Yet the planet had been colonized. In ages past civilization had dug into the rock of the darkside and had thrived. Aristocrats vied with aristocrats, and the poor, as ever, struggled to keep home and body together against the ever-encroaching cold surface.

To keep the lower classes happy, Vitra, the storyteller, spun romantic sagas on the popular network. She imagined a strange world on the sunside, inhabited by men and women enmeshed in crime and love, schemes and intrigues.

Vitra believed she was making this up. But was she? Was there really another civilization on the bright side and could it be that what she related was not fiction - but events which would inevitably send both worlds out of synch to mutual disaster?

Condition: Binding - good, moderate spine lean and book is off square, corners bumped and creased, a bumped and creased spot at the top of the back cover, insides of covers brown/browning around the edges, pages heavily tanned and page edges are a bit soiled. Dust jacket - none, as issued.

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