Item #7395 Fifty-One Tales. Lord Dunsany, Edward Plunkett.

Fifty-One Tales.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. First edition. 8vo, (i-vi) vii-viii, 1-111 (112 printer's imprint). Photogravure frontis of the author. Orig. gray boards with gray linen spine stamped in black. Dunsany's "prismatic cities and unheard-of rites are touched with a sureness which only mastery can engender and we thrill with a sense of actual participation in his secret mysteries."- Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 100; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 578; Bleiler (1978) p. 65; Reginald 04612; Anderson 9.a.1. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped, slt. worn at corner tips, spine uniformly tanned, inner hinge starting, but a pleasant copy. Item #7395

Price: $175.00

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