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Published by Barnes & Noble, 2005
ISBN 10: 0760773645ISBN 13: 9780760773642
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.24.
Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1970
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Printing. 2nd printing thus. (priced at 1.25) This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers are clean and bright. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but have some light, generalized toning. "Eddison's books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often directly copied from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse sagas and French medieval lyric poems. Critic Andy Sawyer has noted that such fragments seem to arise naturally from the "barbarically sophisticated" worlds Eddison has created. [11] The books exhibit a thoroughly aristocratic sensibility; heroes and villains alike maintain an Olympian indifference to convention. Fellow fantasy author Michael Moorcock wrote that Eddison's characters, particularly his villains, are more vivid than Tolkien's." (from Wikipedia).
Published by Ballantine / Del Rey, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0345278534ISBN 13: 9780345278531
Seller: Nessa Books, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Book
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good to Very Good Plus. Murray Tinkelman; (illustrator). 4th Printing. -----012504 - The scan you see is the book you get. Soft cover (roughly) 7" by 4 1/4" (inches), flat uncreased spine, clean tight square & true, xxix, 319 pages including map, Very Good to Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear including back cover lower edge crinkling with small sticker pull. Check out the scans. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Jonathen Cape, London; (1922)
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo. The author's first book of fiction. Frontispiece, 446 pages. Illustrated by Keith Henderson. Eddison began writing novels of fantasy while engaged in a career for the civil service. His first novel, The Worm Ouroboros published in 1922 established him as a serious writer devoted to a fully imagined world of fantasy. Some have speculated that this work influenced Tolkien. Lewis also thought highly of this book. An occasional member of the Inklings who like his friend Tolkien was devoted to Old Norse which begins to be seen in his Norse sage, Styrbiorn the Strong followed by A Fish dinner in Memison which appeared in 1941. He died in 1945 before finishing The Mezentian Gate which was partially issued as a first edition in 1958. A classic fantasy novel set on Mercury. Bound in black cloth centrally stamped in gilt deping a peguses, spine lettering gilt, endpapers stamped with a black lizard like snake, light wear to corners and spine ends,[Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 599. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 32].
Published by Albert & Charles Boni. [1926]., New York, 1926
Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, Canada
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. First American edition. Black cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Pictorial end papers by Keith Henderson. 445 pp.,frontispiece & 5 additional full-page illustrations printed on text paper but not included in the pagination, as well as some smaller vignette illustrations in the text, all by Henderson. Inscribed and Signed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper: "Anne Furse / from / E.R. Eddison / 28th June 1926". Slight tanning to spine panel and gilt on spine slightly dull; minor foxing to page edges, a nice, attractive copy in the pictorial wrap-around dust jacket which has a tiny bit of chipping at head & foot of spine panel and is slightly darkened along the spine, price corner on upper front flap clipped. The jacket on this copy is completely unrestored in any way; this American dust jacket is very fragile and is almost always badly chipped or repaired, unlike here. An excellent copy. The author's first novel, a classic of high fantasy. "I still think of him as the greatest and most convincing writer of 'invented worlds' that I have read. - J.R.R. Tolkien. This American edition dates from four years after the UK edition, which was published in 1922. This edition bears a preliminary note by James Branch Cabell praising the book which is not present in the earlier UK edition. The author never travelled to America, inscribed copies of this American edition are rare.