Doubleday, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Ex-library copy, BCE. First thus. Library tape on dust jacket and pastedowns; tape residue and foxing stains on free end papers. A strange but compelling post-apocalyptic novel incorporating elements of Neopaganism and wrestling with issues of religion, biological warfare, class, technology and hierarchy. First in a duology and followed by the novel Wintermind, The Masters of Solitude was first printed as a four-part serial story in the magazine Galileo in 1977-1978 and then printed as a hardcover book club novel by Doubleday, making this the first edition of the novel in this form. Good / Good. Item #1874