Price (Item Level): 21,300 gp (15th)
Body Slot: — (held)
Caster Level: 13th
Aura: Strong; (DC 21) conjuration and necromancy
Activation: Standard (command)
Weight: 3 lb.
This tome is bound in blood-red leather with vellum pages and bearing a bronze clasp.
This spellbook is waterproof, fireproof, and lockable, and can contain up to forty-five spells of any level. Once per day, its owner can use the book to cast summon monster IV to summon a yeth hound. The book can also be used to cast finger of death once per day, but each such use permanently drains 1 hit point from the wielder. The book must be held to utilize its powers.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, finger of death, summon monster IV.
Cost to Create: 10,650 gp, 852 XP, 22 days.
Source: Complete Arcane, page 148.