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Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett].
The Blessing of Pan.
Publisher: G. p. Putnam’s Sons, New York;
Date of Publication: 1928
Stock Code: 11867
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with 1928 to both title-page and the copyright page. Octavo, pp., vi, 277, [1]. Frontispiece by S. H. Sime, to whom the book is dedicated. Publishers’ bright emerald green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped green pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth clean and bright, and slightly creased at spine tips. A little scattered foxing to text-block edge otherwise contents clean, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket nicked & creased to edge with two short 2 cm tears, small loss at upper folds and moderate loss at tail of spine/lower cover. A near fine copy in a good dust-jacket. Magical fantasy woven by the Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) in which the residents of a quaint English village revert to worshipping their ancestors pagan god Pan. Rare, especially in the fragile jacket. £500.00