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Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett].
Tales of Wonder.
Publisher: Elkin Mathews, London;
Date of Publication: 1920
Stock Code: 12464
Third Edition (3rd Thousand) in Second Edition dust-jacket. Octavo, pp., xi, [1], 187, [1]. With 6 plates S. H. Sime, including frontispiece of “The Bad Old Woman In Black”. Publishers’ light brown finely diced quarter cloth with matching paper-covered boards, with titles to spine and upper board. Unclipped printed green dust-jacket. Small scuff and very light foxing to boards. Free endpapers partially toned; foxing to endpapers and textblock edge otherwise contents clean with many leaves unopened. Jacket lightly surface soiled with small loss at spine tips and front flap detached. A very good copy in good jacket. Nineteen imaginative stories of fantasy and fable, including the evocative ghost story “Thirteen at Table”, by the influential Irish author (1878-1957). Rare, in the original 1920 dust-jacket. £180.00