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William Hope Hodgson. The Night Land. A Love Tale....
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William Hope Hodgson. The Night Land. A Love Tale. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912.8vo. 16 pages of publisher's ads at rear. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION ISSUE BINDING, "perhaps a special binding for the author" (Currey).
Lovecraft wrote, "it is yet one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written."
Condition: Binding slightly leaned; printed photograph of Hodgson pasted to front pastedown; pale spotting to text and textblock edges, generally confined to prelims; three pages of descriptions of the book and author (seemingly from a bibliography) pasted to the first three pages of ads at rear.
References: Barron, Fantasy and Horror, 4-71; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 817; Currey, p. 243 (binding A); Locke I, p. 115; Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 83; Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, p. 225.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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