THE UNFORTUNATE FURSEY

by Mervyn Wall

$750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: The Pilot Press Limited, 1946. Octavo, pp. 1-5 6-241 242-244: blank note: last leaf used as rear paste-down , original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. A fine satire in which the Devil selects a tenth century Irish monk as his bridgehead. A landmark book in the history of fantasy. - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1648. Various haunters plaguing an Irish monastery attach

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