Zelazny, Roger “Roadmarks” [Ballantine Books, 1979] Signed 1st Edition

ZELAZNY, Roger. Roadmarks.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Roger Zelazny on the title page. 8.5” x 6”, 185pp. Publisher's quarter cream cloth over brown paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, in unclipped dust jacket. Light shelf wear to jacket; book clean and sound. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

A presentation-worthy first printing of one of Zelazny's most inventive standalone novels. Roadmarks imagines a mysterious highway running outside ordinary time, where travelers can exit into alternate histories, forgotten pasts, or possible futures. Along the Road move dragons, assassins, ghosts, and temporal adventurers, all intersecting with Red Dorakeen, a former soldier seeking to outrun both his past and those who would control the pathways of time. The novel combines science fiction, fantasy, mythology, and metafiction in a structure that reflects the branching realities through which its characters travel.

Published between the later Amber novels and Changeling, Roadmarks is widely regarded as one of Zelazny's most original independent works, showcasing the wit, literary ambition, and genre-blending imagination that made him one of the defining voices of twentieth-century speculative fiction.