MASTERPIECES OF FANTASY AND ENCHANTMENT

New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1988. Book. Illus. by Thomas Canty;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvi) 622 pp. This is a book club edition and it pre-dates the St. Martin's so-called first edition by seven months. Quarter-bound in burgundy on light gray boards; lettered in yellow on the spine. Lightly rubbed at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Thomas Canty. This anthology contains: The King of the Elves - a novelette by Philip K. Dick; The Rule of Names by Ursula K. Le Guin; Our Fair City by Robert A. Heinlein; Elric at the End of Time - a novelette by Michael Moorcock; The Sword of Welleran by Lord Dunsany; The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens; The Glass Dog by L. Frank Baum; The Goddess on the Street Corner by Margaret St. Clair; The Man Who Could Not See Devils by Joanna Russ; The Green Magician - an Incomplete Enchanter novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt; Lindenborg Pool by William Morris; The Bee-Man of Orn by Frank R. Stockton; Bird of Prey by John Collier; Mr. Lupescu by Anthony Boucher; Space-Time for Springers by Fritz Leiber; Uncle Einar by Ray Bradbury; The King of the Cats by Stephen Vincent Benet; The Red Hawk - a novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn; The Queen of Quok by L. Frank Baum; The Magic Bonbons by L. Frank Baum; The Dummy That Lived by L. Frank Baum; The Root and the Ring - a novelette by Wyman Guin; A New Arabian Night's Entertainment by Horace Walpole; The King and His Three Daughtesr by Horace Walpole; The Dice-box: A Fairy Tale by Horace Walpole; The Peach in Brandy by Horace Walpole: A Milesian Tale by Horace Walpole; Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy Tale by Horace Walpole; A True Love Story by Horace Walpole; The Bird's Nest by Horace Walpole; The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe; The Silken-Swift by Theodore Sturgeon; The New Mother by Lucy Clifford; Great is Diana by Avram Davidson; The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story by Christopher Pearse Cranch; Tobermory by Saki; The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers - a novelette by Samuel R. Delany; from Phantasmion by Sara Coleridge; The Sapphire Necklace, The Regent of the North, The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese Story by Kenneth Morris; The Moon Pool - a novella by A. Merritt; Operation Afreet - a novelette by Poul Anderson; The Canvasser's Tale by Mark Twain; and Feathertop: A Moralized Legend by Nathaniel Hawthorne..