Lord Darcy: a 3-in-1 volume (Murder and Magic, Too Many Magicians, Lord Darcy Investigates)

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1983. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Walter Velez. First printing of this edition. Very good book in very good jacket. Dust jacket has tiny chips / closed tears at lower edge on the spine and flap folds; now in new removable protective cover. Rose boards, with pink print on grey spine. Spine lightly bumped. Clean, light, unmarked pages. Nelson Doubleday (imprint of Science Fiction Book Club) hardcover with dust jacket, June 1983 edition, first printing (code N23), SFBC #3918, 600 pages, cover art by Walter Velez. 8vo (8.5"" x 5.75"") There have been three editions of this title: a June 1983 Nelson Doubleday hard cover with cover art by Walter Velez (the present title); a 1999 Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with cover art by Denis Beauvais, and a Baen edition with slightly different contents (trade paper 2002 and mass paperback 2004). Omnibus of stories and novels about the noble English detective Lord Darcy and his assistant, Master Sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn. Collects the two short story collections Murder and Magic, and Lord Darcy Investigates (1982 5th place Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection) with the novel Too Many Magicians (nominated, 1967 Hugo Award). Murder and Magic has the following stories: The Eyes Have It, A Cade of Identity, The Muddle of the Woad, and A Stretch of the Imagination. Lord Darcy Investigates has the following stories: A Matter of Gravity (20th place, 1975 Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette), The Ipswich Phial, The Sixteen Keys, and The Napoli Express (15th place, 1980 Locus Poll Award).