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TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES
de Lord Dunsany
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Boston: John W. Luce & Company, 1919. First edition. Small octavo. Cloth and maroon boards stamped in gilt. First American edition, precedes British edition by two years. Spine a bit faded, small rub on upper panel, lower right, former owner's name and date on front free endpaper, else a very good or better copy without a dust jacket, but with the requisite watermark.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels, and essays.
The mystical city of Bethmoora, first mentioned in Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, was incorporated into The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Dunsany also invented creatures, like gnoles and gibbelins, that are likely the models for the zoogs and ghasts of Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957), was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels, and essays.
The mystical city of Bethmoora, first mentioned in Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, was incorporated into The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Dunsany also invented creatures, like gnoles and gibbelins, that are likely the models for the zoogs and ghasts of Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June, 1920. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication in a new edition by Owlswick Press in 1976, with illustrations by Tim Kirk and a foreword by H. P.
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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 541
- Título
- TALES OF THREE HEMISPHERES
- Autor
- Lord Dunsany
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- John W. Luce & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1919
- Palabras clave
- Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos
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