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Shiel, M.P.
The Purple Cloud.
Publisher: Tartarus Press, Leyburn;
Date of Publication: 2004
Stock Code: 12792
First thus, one of a limited edition of 400 copies only. Octavo. pp., xv, 286. Illustrations within the text. Hardcover in lilac cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt title and silhouette motif to cover. Violet end-papers and matching silk place-marker. Publisher’s cream dust-jacket with an illustration by J.J. Cameron. Some shelf wear to lower edge of boards and dust-jacket; contents clean without annotation or inscription. A near fine copy in like dust-jacket. This new edition reprints the original unrevised text of the 1901 first edition and reproduces J.J. Cameron’s illustrations from the “Royal Magazine” serialisation of the same year. With an introductory essay by Brian Satbleford “The Black and White Mystery of The Purple Cloud. £125.00