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Dunsany, Lord.
Patches of Sunlight.
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1938
Stock Code: 15258
First edition. Octavo, pp., viii, 299, [1], plus photographic author portrait frontispiece. Publisher’s original olive green cloth; titled in gilt to spine; white end-papers. Corners softened; shelf-wear to spine-tips and to edges of boards. Light scattered foxing to fore-edge and to select leaves, particularly the prelims; former ownership inscription to front free end-paper inexpertly scrapped. A solid copy. The autobiography of Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), Anglo-Irish fantasy writer and war poet, who proved to be an influence upon J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin. £50.00