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Lord Dunsany. Two Works, including: Fifty-One Tales. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917. Octavo. 138 pages. Publisher's dark tan boards with the front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Some bumping to the corners, slight rubbing to the covers, very minor sunning to the spine, some notations on the endpapers. Altogether a very good copy. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878 - 1957) originally published this collection of fantasy short stories in 1915 by Elkin Mathews in London. It was later reissued in 1974 by Newcastle Publishing Company as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales, as part of their notable Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library. [and:] Five Plays: The Gods of the Mountiani, The Golden Doom, King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior, The Glittering Gate, the Lost Silk Hat. By Lord Dunsany. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, MCMXIV [1914]. Octavo. xii, 116 pages. Publisher's wine red cloth covers with the front cover ruled and lettered in blind-stamped, the back cover is blind-stamped with the publisher's monogram. The spine is lettered in gilt. Some bumping to the corners, slightly rubbed covers, sunned spine. Altogether a very good copy. This work was originally published by Grant Richards in 1914. This copy was part of the Modern Drama Series, edited by Edwin Bjorkman.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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