FOURTH MANSIONS

by Lafferty

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Dennis Dobson, 1972 . Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel, which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty, as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot, essentially a

• Binding: Hardcover

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.