The King Of Elfland's Daughter (signed/limited + inscribed by the author)
by Dunsany, Lord
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Farway, Colyton, Devon, United Kingdom
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About This Item
G. P. Putnam's Sons: London, 1924. First edition (& 1st printing). Oversize hardcover. Original vellum backed cloth boards, morocco spine label. Classic fantasy novel. ''First printed, May 1924'' on copyright page. Frontispiece by Sidney Sime, This May, 1924 printing was the deluxe signed/limited edition, followed a month later (''First printed May 1924, Second Edition June 1924'' stated on copyright page by the trade edition. Not republished for over fifty years, when issued as a Ballantine paperback in 1969 as the second volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series edited by Lin Carter. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by both author and artist. This is no 233. THIS COPY ADDITIONALLY BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY DUNSANY ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Lacking the rare dustjacket. A four line typed review from a newspaper is affixed with a little tape to the first blank page, a production fault has left a chip (not affecting text) along the edge of p. 61/62 and a matching "overhang" along edge of p. 63/64, a VG+ copy (lacking the rare dustjacket).
Reviews
On Dec 17 2022, a reader said:
A beautiful, sensitive but not sentimental story. Lord Dunsany's style brought together various archaic elements and styles and combined them what I can best describe as a sensitivity to the world -- not just to the human condition. Modern fantasy has for too long been a choice between saccharine cosiness or adolescent grim negativity. Dunsany represents something quite apart from that. Even on a sentence by sentence level, he writes with a sense of real music and poetry that is rare and, at his best as this book is one representative of, unique and unequaled.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cold Tonnage Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07205
- Title
- The King Of Elfland's Daughter (signed/limited + inscribed by the author)
- Author
- Dunsany, Lord
- Format/Binding
- Oversize hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition (& 1st printing)
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons: London
- Date Published
- 1924
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About the Seller
Cold Tonnage Books
Biblio member since 2005
Farway, Colyton, Devon
About Cold Tonnage Books
I am the foremost British bookseller of fine, collectable, signed 1st editions of science fiction, fantasy and the supernatural. Full-time (it pays the mortgage) since 1989. All books bubble-wrapped and sent in card boxes.
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- First Edition
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- Morocco
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- Inscribed
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
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- Vellum
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- Spine Label
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