Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two volumes of The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. It was first published in 1983 in the UK under the title The Book of the New Sun, Vols. I & II by Sidgwick & Jackson. The first US edition was published by Orb Books in 1994. It has also been reprinted by Orion Books, under the title The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw, as the first volume of their Fantasy Masterworks series.
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