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MacDonald, George; with introduction by C.S. Lewis.
Phantastes and Lilith.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1962
Stock Code: 12731
Reprint, octavo, pp., 420. Publisher’s blue cloth to boards; titled in gilt to spine. Foxing to top edge, toning to half-title, pages lightly tanned. A very good copy. Two nineteenth-century fantasy novels, Phantastes (1858) and Lilith (1895), republished by Gollancz, with a new introduction by C.S. Lewis. In that introduction Lewis says of MacDonald “Every now and then there occurs in the modern world a genius - a Kafka or a Novalis who can make [a myth]. MacDonald is the great genius of this kind whom I know.” £40.00