THE LOST CAVERN AND OTHER TALES OF THE FANTASTIC

by Heard

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1948 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four novellas, including The Cup, perhaps the best of Heard's fantasies. In The Lost Cavern a speleologist exploring a vast cavern in Mexico encounters a lost race, half bat, half man, but intellectually and physically superior to both. The Thaw Plan is a tale of the future set on a ruined Earth. Barron

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