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Land of Unreason
by Pratt, Fletcher; L. Sprague de Camp
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 21 x 14.5 cm. 260pp, 18pp.Brown cloth in dust jacket. Jacket art by Boris Artzybasheff. A shorter version was originally published in Unknown Worlds in October, 1941, this is the first book edition with no additional printings noted. Corners lightly bumped, fading to spine on both cloth and jacket. All four flaps of jacket are clipped, original price of $2.50 remains present. Light chipping to edges of jacket.
Synopsis
Land of Unreason is a fantasy novel written by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in the fantasy magazine Unknown Worlds for October, 1941. Revised and expanded, it was first published in book form by Henry Holt and Company in 1942. It has been reprinted numerous times since by various publishers, most notably by Ballantine Books in January 1970 as the tenth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. It has also been translated into Italian.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76857
- Title
- Land of Unreason
- Author
- Pratt, Fletcher; L. Sprague de Camp
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Midway Used and Rare Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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