Search Results: LITERATURE CATALOG 46 from Gregor Rare Books

Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine Acetate dust jacket. This US edition collects twelve of the twenty stories that appeared in the UK edition of this title. The stories were written in the five years between 1976 and 1981. "Midnight Mass" picks up where Bowles' Collected Stories left off, and includes the wonderful novella-length "Here to Learn", concerning a young Moroccan woman 'adopted' by various affluent Europeans.

A Fine tight copy in Near Fine dust jacket with a tiny nick to the bottom of the front panel. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth concentrates on the lands of Middle-earth and comprises Gandalf's lively account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the story of the emergence of the sea god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan and the journey of the Black Riders during the hunt for the Ring. It also contains the only surviving story about the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known about the Five Wizards sent to Middle-earth as emissaries of the Valar, about the Seeing Stones known as palantíri, and about the legend of Amroth. Complete with foldout map.