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Lord Dunsany. Six Works, including:... (Total: 6 Items)
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Lord Dunsany. Six Works, including: The Book of Wonder. A Chronicle of Little Adventures at the Edge of the World. By Lord Dunsany. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [n.d.] Octavo. 134 [135] pages. Ten illustrated plates, including the frontispiece. [and:] The Last Book of Wonder. By Lord Dunsany. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [1916]. Octavo. 213 pages. Six illustrated plates, including the frontispiece. [and:] The Sword of Welleran And Other Stories. By Lord Dunsany. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [n.d.] Octavo. 177 pages. Ten illustrated plates including the frontispiece. [and:] The Gods of Pegana. By Lord Dunsany. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [n.d.] Octavo. 99 pages. Eight illustrated plates, including the frontispiece. [and:] A Dreamer's Tales. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [n.d.] Octavo. 194 pages. Nine illustrated plates, including the frontispiece. [and:] Time and the Gods. By Lord Dunsany. With Illustrations by S. H. Sime. Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [n.d.] Octavo. 219 pages. Ten illustrated plates, including the frontispiece. All six issues are bound identically with quarter black cloth over red boards with the front covers lettered and ruled on one side in gilt. The spines are lettered in gilt. All display a small bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown endpaper. All display minor sunning and rubbing to the covers and spines, some bumping to the corners. Altogether they are all very good copies. All six books are anthologies of short stories authored and collected by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878 - 1957).Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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June, 2008
4th-5th
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