Mistress of Mistresses: A Vision of Zimiamvia de Eddison, E[ric] R[ücker]

Faber & Faber, London 1935. 1st ed., first printing. Large 8vo. With decorations by Keith Henderson. The first book in the Zimiamvia trilogy, followed by 'A Fish Dinner in Memison' (1941) and 'The Mezentian Gate' [unfinished] (1958). A few pale fox-marks to the free endpapers and slight fading to the red stained top edge, otherwise a clean, bright copy in the publisher's cream dustwrapper lettered in black and with decorations in scarlet, gold and black, now a little dusty and marked, with two small closed tears and a slightly browned spine, the head of which shows a touch of wear