The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard. First Edition. 1987. Arkam House Publishers, Inc. Hardcover. Black cloth cover with gilt-stamped title on spine. In publisher’s original pictorial dust jacket with mylar covering as well. Fine condition. B&W illustrations throughout.

“Throughout the stories in this collection- so varied in their geographical settings, so manifold in portraying the richness of human experience- Shepard makes recurrent allusion to something beyond the pale diurnal reality…Neither a strict realist or a general fantasist, Shepard typically employs this visionary realm as an extension, an intensifier, of the world we know; at his best, he gives us a glimpse of the central mystery of life itself.”