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Time and the Gods.
by Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Boston; John W. Luce & Company, [1913]., 1913. Hard Cover. First American Edition. Octavo, pp. [10], 219, [1]. 10 monochrome plates by Sidney Sime including frontispiece. Publishers' quarter black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown paper-covered boards with gilt titles and decoration to upper board; fore-and lower-edges uncut; in publishers' beige dust-jacket. Corners and spine tips a little bruised. Scattered light foxing; several leaves unopened; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket surface soiled with nicks & creases to edge, small tape repair to reverse at tail of spine, 2 cm split at lower front fold and small loss at head of spine. A very good copy in like dust-jacket. Rare true American First Edition (copies with date 1913 printed to title page are actually the 1906 Heinemann first printing with a Luce & Co. cancel title). Second book by the Irish fantasy writer (1878-1957), a collection of twenty short stories brought to life by Sime's evocative illustrations.
Synopsis
Time and the Gods is the second book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in September, 1906, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorised combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in 1918.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11866
- Title
- Time and the Gods.
- Author
- Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett]
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston; John W. Luce & Company, [1913].
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Fiction
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Leaves
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- Title Page
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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