About this title: Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in 20th century. "Fifty-One Tales" (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title "The Food of Death") is an ideal introduction to Dunsany.
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Description: Good. 1587150794 Ex-library book with stickers and stampings. Overall nice condition book with clean text and good binding unless otherwise noted. Edges lightly wrinkled on a couple of pages. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
Description: As New in No jacket. Reissue, first edition thus, first printing. Softcover. Trade paperback. Very fine book in pictorial wrappers. read more
Edition: First Wildside Press Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wildside Press, Holicong, PA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781587150791ISBN:1587150794
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Introduction by Lin Carter and John Gregory Betancourt. This is a wonderful collection of miniature portraits from the hero fantasist of HPL, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith, just to name a few. Originally published in 1915. Interiors are clean and unmarked. Too much glue has been put in along the spine during the binding process, resulting in a ripple along the length of the spine. Soft cover wraps show light shelfwear only. Spine is uncreased. A ... read more
Binding: hb
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1920
Description: Bound in original brick-brown cloth with gilt lettering. Small 8vo, pp. 138. Corners of boards sl. bumped. Spine lettering sl. faded. Very light scuffing to cloth; else clean and in very good condition. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, poet, playwright and academic. This title was first published by Elkin Mathews in 1915 in London (see Bleiler, Check-List of Science Fiction and Fantasy). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915,
Description: -Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The covers are bumped & rubbed. The spine & its gilt titling are faded. 138 pages. The page edges are slightly darkened with a tiny stain to the top edge of 1 page. Good. First American edition. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Elkin Matthews, London
Date Published: 1915
Description: Binding is rubbed, with light wear at tips of corners, endpapers are lightly browned (as usual), else a very good copy. DUNSANY, Lord. FIFTY-ONE TALES. Small octavo, linen spine, paper-covered boards, pp. viii, 112, illustrated (with a frontispiece portrait). Stories of fantasy and the supernatural by Lord Dunsany [see Bleiler, Locke et al]. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Elkin Mathews,
Date Published: 1915
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-111 [112: printer's imprint] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with photographic portrait of the author, original gray boards with gray linen shelfback, front and spine panels stamped in black, all edges untrimmed. First edition. 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 ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Elkin Mathews,
Date Published: 1915
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-111 [112: printer's imprint] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with photographic portrait of the author, original gray boards with gray linen shelfback, front and spine panels stamped in black, all edges untrimmed. First edition. 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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: WILDSIDE PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781587150791ISBN:1587150794
Description: New. Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in 20th century. "Fifty-One Tales" (originally published in 1915 and sometimes reprinted under the title "The Food of Death") is an ideal introduction to Dunsany. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Borgo Press
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781587150791ISBN:1587150794
Description: New. Without doubt Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential writers of fantasy fiction in twentieth century. His fiction is an acknowledged influence on entire generations of writers, ranging from H.P. Lovecraft to James Branch Cabell, from Clark Ashto... read more
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