Fifty-One Tales
by Dunsany, Lord. (Edward Plunkett)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. 8vo, (i-vi) vii-viii, 1-111 (112 printer's imprint). Photogravure frontis of the author. Orig. gray boards with gray linen spine stamped in black. Dunsany's "prismatic cities and unheard-of rites are touched with a sureness which only mastery can engender and we thrill with a sense of actual participation in his secret mysteries."- Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 100; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 578; Bleiler (1978) p. 65; Reginald 04612; Anderson 9.a.1. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped, slt. worn at corner tips, spine uniformly tanned, inner hinge starting, but a pleasant copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7395
- Title
- Fifty-One Tales
- Author
- Dunsany, Lord. (Edward Plunkett)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Elkin Mathews
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Bookseller catalogs
- MODERN FIRSTS;
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About the Seller
Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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Garrison, New York
About Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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