The Night Land: A Love Tale

by Hodgson, William Hope

$4,500 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

First edition

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. First edition. 583, [1] pp. Bound sans catalogue at rear, no priority thus. Bound in publisher's peach-colored cloth variant with elaborate ruling in blind, gilt lettering. Very Good, lacking jacket, with sunning to spine, rubbing along edges of spine and at tips, tiny stain to back board. Light foxing (mostly to margins) throughout, two tiny remnants of a bookplate to paste down, hinges a little free. Uncommon.A dark fantasy novel called by H.P. Lovecraft in his seminal essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written." Also acclaimed by Clark Ashton Smith.

  • Publisher: Eveleigh Nash
  • Year: 1912
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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