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Edité par Harcourt, New York, 1943
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first collection of short stories (twenty-eight, most having earlier appeared in magazines) by the author of THE EATER OF DARKNESS (1926). A nearly fine, bright copy in good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges, several closed tears along bottom edge of front panel with associated creases, 22 mm closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel, and some general dust soiling. (#119431).
Edité par [Contact Editions], [Paris], 1926
Vendeur : Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original marbled wrappers, printed paper labels, untrimmed; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition of the first book by the future art critic of the 'New Yorker', "an ignored minor masterpiece of anti-realist fiction, a novel that deserves the attention of all students of fantasy literature" ('Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature' I, pp. 460-63). 'The Eater of Darkness', printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantière (the printer of 'Ulysses'), has 20 dedicatees, including Gertrude Stein, Nick Carter, Robert McAlmon, Harold Loeb, 'The New York Herald Tribune' and Fantomas. The Jonathan Goodwin copy. In very good condition. Ford, 'Published in Paris', pp. 74-76; Bleiler, p. 45. (BA). Small repair at top of spine, wear at heal.
Edité par Contact Editions, [Paris, 1926
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [i-xv] xvi [1] 2-179 [180: blank] [181: printer's imprint] [182-184: blank] [note: paper wrapper folded over first and last leaves; leaf preceding half title leaf is a blank], original marbled paper wrappers, printed paper labels affixed to front and spine panels. First edition. The author's first book, "an ignored minor masterpiece of antirealistic fiction, a novel that deserves the attention of all students of fantasy literature." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 463. Coates' novel "quite brilliantly applies a wide arsenal of literary devices, some of them surrealistic, to the exaggeratedly spoof-like tale of a master criminal and his absurd super-weapon, which sees through solids and applies remote-control heat to kill people invisibly; beneath the spoofing and the cosmopolitan style lies a sense of horror." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 239. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-16; (1987) 2-18; (1995) 2-20; and (2004) II-267. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 438. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 54. Bleiler (1978), p. 45. Reginald 03107. 7 mm chip from head of spine panel, light wear to tail of spine panel, several tiny closed tears to fore edge of front wrapper, else a fine copy. A very attractive copy of a scarce, fragile book. (#9837).