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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix: Available Copies

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Das Fenster zur anderen Welt. Phantasische Erzählungen. Redaktion: Werner Berthel. Aus dem Englischen von Friedrich Polakovics. Entnommen aus: Originaltitel: A Dreamer's Tales (1910). / The Book of Wonder (1912) / Tales of Wonder (1916), in Amerika als The Last Book of Wonder veröffentlicht. / The Man Who Ate the Phoenix (1947). - (=Bibliothek des Hauses Usher, herausgegeben von Kalju Kirde).
    by Dunsany, Lord:

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Frankfurt (am Main) : Insel-Verlag (1971)


    Seller: BOUQUINIST (München, BY, Germany)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $40.00
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    TOTAL Cost: $51.74

244 (4) Seiten. 21,3 cm. Schutzumschlag: Hans Ulrich & Ute Osterwalder. Guter Zustand. Schutzumschlag hinten am Kopf mit einem kleinen Einriß. Folienkaschierung des Schutzumschlags gering gelöst. - Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18. Baron Dunsany (* 24. Juli 1878 in London; † 25. Oktober 1957 in Dublin) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Heute ist er hauptsächlich unter dem Namen Lord Dunsany für seine der Fantasy zugerechneten Kurzgeschichten bekannt. Leben: Einer der Vorfahren Lord Dunsanys war der von der römisch-katholischen Kirche heiliggesprochene Erzbischof von Armagh, Oliver Plunkett. Die Countess of Fingall, Gattin von Lord Dunsanys Vetter, dem Earl of Fingall, verfasste eine vielgelesene Beschreibung des Lebens des Adels im Irland des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts, unter dem Titel Seventy Years Young. Zu seiner Ausbildung besuchte Lord Dunsany das Eton College und die Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Er diente als Offizier der Coldstream Guards im Zweiten Burenkrieg in Südafrika und bei den Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers im Ersten Weltkrieg, war ein guter Cricketspieler und brachte es zum irischen Meister im Pistolenschießen. Lord Dunsany war zudem ein guter Schachspieler, beispielsweise konnte er 1929 bei einer Simultanveranstaltung gegen Ex-Weltmeister José Raúl Capablanca ein Remis erreichen. Besonders widmete er sich dem Problemschach, er hat zahlreiche Schachaufgaben hinterlassen. 1942 erfand er seine Schachvariante Dunsany’s Game, bei der die 16 Steine eines der Spieler durch 32 Bauern ersetzt worden sind. Seine Liebe zur Löwenjagd regte ihn zu seinen wenigen autobiographischen Werken an. Im Allgemeinen galt Dunsany als Exzentriker, und es wird behauptet, er habe seine Texte mit einer Gänsefeder geschrieben. Zu seinem Werk äußerte er sich folgendermaßen: „Ich schreibe niemals über Dinge, die ich gesehen habe, nur über die, von denen ich geträumt habe." Werke: Lord Dunsany schrieb größtenteils Kurzgeschichten, daneben aber auch Lyrik, Dramen und Romane. Die heute noch bekannten Geschichten aus dem Bereich der Fantasy entstanden in den Jahren zwischen 1905 und 1919. Sie sind in eine eigenständige Welt, Pegana, gesetzt, mit einer eigenen Mythologie und Geschichte, und gelten heute als Meilenstein der phantastischen Literatur. H. P. Lovecraft war von Dunsany beeindruckt; seine frühen Erzählungen zeigen Dunsanys Einfluss. Auch die von Lovecraft erdachte „Traumwelt" ist stark von Dunsanys Werken geprägt. Fletcher Pratts Roman The Well of the Unicorn (1948) entstand als Fortsetzung zu Dunsanys Schauspiel King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior. . . Aus: wikipedia-Edward_Plunkett,_18._Baron_Dunsany. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 375 Schwarzes Leinen mit farbigen Vorsätzen, Glanzfolienkaschierung und Schutzumschlag.

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MAN WHO ATE THE PHOENIX.
    by DUNSANY, LORD

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: jarrolds, 1949 (1949)


    Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS (webster, NY, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $53.00
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very good , small chipped spine ends and corners

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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
    by Lord Dunsany

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Jarrolds (1949)


    Seller: Moe's Books (Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $75.00
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Dust jacket worn, with tears that have been repaired with tape that has browned.

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The Man Who Ate The Phoenix
    by Dunsany,Lord

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: Jarrolds, London ()


    Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA (Old Langho, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: Good
    Book Price: $64.13
    Shipping: $19.86
    TOTAL Cost: $83.99

This is a Good Ex Library Copy bound in black cloth with gold lettering to spine,covers are a little rubbed and the spine has remains of painted reference number near base of spine.There is a library plate on the front pastedown and withdrawn stamp to the front fly lef.Copyright page has some inked numbers.Rear endpaper has a withdrawnn stamp and remains from the card pocket.Hinges are tight binding is firm with old due date slip glued down to rear endpaper.This copy has what appears to be copy of the front cover and spine mounted onto a makeshift wrapper card.Early Edition with no date internally Circa 1940's 8vo 223pp No Date Circa 1940's

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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
    by Dunsany, Lord

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers, London ()


    Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB (Whitby, ON, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
    Book Price: $93.49
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    TOTAL Cost: $109.49

16mo. [N.d., [ca. 1930?]. Orig. tan cloth. 223 pp. Cloth is rubbed to spine, edges, and upper front board. One small damp stain to head of rear board. Dust jacket is cropped to front flap (with some loss to blurb), chipped to spine ends and corners, long tears and creasing to top edge of front cover, damp staining to head of rear cover. An amazingly varied collection of tales by an acknowledged master of the short story. 0.

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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
    by DUNSANY, Lord

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers (London) Limited, London (1949)


    Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: Very Good
    Book Price: $120.00
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First edition. Black cloth gilt. Spine lettering a little dull but easily readable, a little rubbing on the binding, a very good copy without dustwrapper. A collection of stories, some with fantastic elements.

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The Man Who Ate The Phoenix.
    by DUNSANY, Lord.

    Hardcover
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    Publisher: Jarrolds, London (1945)


    Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC) (Toronto, ON, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $112.18
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First edition. Name o/w near fine in d/w with chips at spine ends and corners but still nice.

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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
    by DUNSANY, Lord

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Jarrolds Publishers [1949], London (1949)


    Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA (Winchester, VA, U.S.A.)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $165.00
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    TOTAL Cost: $171.00

Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 223pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with some minor wrinkling, light toning to spine and rear panel, else Very Good and sound. Short story collection. CURREY, p. 171; JOSHI & SCHWEITZER A.85.a.

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THE MAN WHO ATE THE PHOENIX. (SIGNED)
    by LORD DUNSANY.,

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: Jarrolds, London ()


    Seller: Any Amount of Books (London, United Kingdom)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $153.92
    Shipping: $23.04
    TOTAL Cost: $176.96

8vo. pp 223. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine. No date, [1949]. Boldly signed by the author on the front endpaper in his characteristic black ink to Henry Taylor Lamb (1883–1960) Australian-born British painter, "To Henry, wishing you all a happy Christmas, D. - 1949." Henry Lamb was related to Lord Dunsany through his wife, Lady Pansy Lamb (1904–1999) (Pakenham) and from whose family this book was bought. Slight rubbing and fading at spine, otherwise sound, very good minus with clean text.

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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix
    by Dunsany, Lord

    Hardcover
    ISBN:
    Publisher: London Jarrolds Publishers [1949] (1949)


    Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC (Calgary, AB, Canada)
    Used Book—Condition: unspecified
    Book Price: $317.86
    Shipping: $15.00
    TOTAL Cost: $332.86

223pp. Small octavo. First edition. Original black cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the spine. Minor wear along the edges of the boards and some rubbing to the front. A small publisher's description of the book has been affixed to the front pastedown. The wonderfully illustrated dust jacket has not been price clipped; a minor amount of shelf-wear along the edges of the jacket, mostly to the head and tail of the spine. Inscribed by the author on the ffep in black ink; inscribed again by the previous owner, just beneath Dunsany's inscription, with the claim that this was a "pre-publication copy from the author". Previous owner's stamp to the title page, as well as to the back free-endpaper. A wonderfully inscribed copy. A lovely collection of short stories, as well as the novella that the book is named after. Dunsany has inscribed this copy to Manuel Tarshish, an avid book collector and aspiring author; Tarshish's inscription to Franklin V. Spellman, who was a bookseller, is also present.

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