[Rarebooks] FS - Lud-in-the-Mist

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*MIRRLEES, Hope. /LUD-IN-THE-MIST/*. Bound in original green half cloth 
with patterned paper over boards. Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, 1927. 
Small 8vo, pp. 313. First American edition.

Helen Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British poet, novelist, and 
translator (she spoke six languages by her mid-20s), and friend of 
Virginia Woolf. Her best known work is "Lud-in-the-Mist", which was 
first published by W. Collins Sons in London, in 1926 (See Bleiler, "The 
Check-List of Science-Fiction and Supernatural Fiction"). It "...is a 
unique fantasy novel, slow moving and exquisitely written, fairly short, 
and very much unlike the typical Tolkien rehashes of today" (George T. 
Dodds, SF
Site Reviews). This is the first American edition. This title has been 
re-published numerous times, starting with a mass-market paperback in 
1970, and is now available in the abhorrent POD (print-on-demand) format 
(the book equivalent to a TV dinner). Our copy shows rubbing to the 
edges of the boards. The paper title label, affixed to the spine, is 
slightly pulled away, but not torn. The half-cloth spine, and the 
boards, are lightly soiled. The "Borzoi"-design endpapers are clean and 
tight, although the binding feels very slightly sprung. The contents are 
clean and bright. Overall, in good, to good plus, condition. No dust jacket.

Price: $500.00.

Terms of sale - The price is in USD, and the book is offered subject to 
prior sale. Payment by check or credit card. Postage and packing charge 
is $7.50. Returnable within seven days of receipt if not as described.

 
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