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New York: Walker and Company, [1970]. First hardcover edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild age toning to the spine panel. (31232). Octavo, boards. On a label affixed to the front free end paper this copy is inscribed and signed by Matheson to a well known early fan. "In a future world where a virus has infected nearly everyone with vampirism, mortal Robert Neville spends his nights defending his fortified bunker...and his days slaughtering sleeping vampires. Matheson's influential novel was one fo the first to propose a scientific rationale for vampirism." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-257. "One of the central novels in shaping contemporary horror fiction" - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-217. Made in to several mediocre feature films. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-720. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-257. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: The 100 Best Books 54. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 986-90. King list, p.…

I Am Legend is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson, first published in 1954. It was influential in the development of the zombie-vampire genre and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.

The first edition of I Am Legend by Gold Medal Books does not have an ISBN as it was not yet in use and can be identified by the cover art and publisher information.