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Fourth Mansions: Available Copies

Unread book in perfect condition.

1st printing. A fine, like new, copy!

Take a trip through a near-psychedelic reality, with: Seven very special people blending to create a higher form of humanity; A laughing man living alone on a mountaintop, guarding the world; The Returnees: men who live again and again, century after century; A dog-ape "Plappergeist," who can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye; And a young man named Foley, very much like you and me, who begins to find out about the above people and things, and how they are reshaping the world! Mass market paperback; no stated publishing history so presumed first edition, first printing thus. Publisher book number 24590, cover price $0.75. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Covers show only minor shelf wear and are not creased. Check marks on the list of books for sale at the back of the book, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square. Hinges are secure. Price sticker on front cover. Corners not bumped.

Mild general wear to covers, including some small chips. Light tanning to pages. Binding sound. Internally clean.

2018. Paperback. . . . . .

640 pages. 7.83x5.12x1.61 inches. In Stock.

Minor lean to the lightly creased spine, light shelf wear to the corners, toning to the paper and covers, light crease or two to the rear cover, previous owner's initials penned to ffep, remainder mark to top edge. Text is clean. 'Can man become superman? One man holds the key!' Bart Science Fiction. 252 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

2018. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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vg+ Star 1977 edition paperback remainder cut on bottom of pages In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Unread book in perfect condition.

Ace Science Fiction Special book number 24590. "One of the finest examples of American avant-garde SF." Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 1987, *4-310. Cover illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon. Light toning, else fine. A tight copy, appears unread.

252 pages; Goodreads; Fourth Mansions was inspired by Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle, and contains quotations from the book, which quotations Lafferty uses as chapter headings. The Interior Castle is a metaphor for an individual's soul; its different rooms, different states of the soul. In the middle of the Castle the soul is in the purest state, which equals Heaven. Lafferty uses more complex symbols to bring colorfully into life his many-sided tale of an individual's reaching towards Heaven or Truth. Take a trip thru a psychedelic reality, with seven very special people blending to create a higher form of humanity: A laughing man living alone on a mountaintop, guarding the world. The Returnees: men who live again & again, century after century. A dog-ape "Plappergeist," who can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. A young man named Foley, very much like us, who begins to find out about the above people & things, & how they're reshaping the world! >>Scuffing to backcover; cover creaisng; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Book appears to have been chewed in the past.

Paperback original (Ace #24590), very good in original wraps. Faint crease at top right corner of front cover; owner name on front endpaper. A tight, square copy with very little wear to covers. Laid in is a piece of paper with the author's signature. 0

First hardcover edition. FINE fresh copy in like jacket.

First edition/printing (1969 Ace 24590 An Ace Science Fiction Special) paperback original (PBO) in Fine, unread condition. Sharp copy. " More complexly, Fourth Mansions (1969), possibly Lafferty's most sustained single novel, articulates with some clarity the basic underlying bent of his best work: a protagonist (or several) finds a pattern of flamboyant, arcane, dreamlike clues to a conspiracy (or conspiracies, involving sharply differentiated cabals of Secret Masters) between Good and Evil whose outcome will determine the moral nature of reality to come." [JC] Encyclopedia of SF, 4th Ed. Internet.

Slight shelfwear to the dust jacket. The inside corner of the dust jacket has been cut.

Neuware - Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty drew more from traditional oral storytelling techniques than from the usual pulp roots of SF. His inventive style and fondness for tall tales marked him out from his contemporaries, and writers of the calibre of Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman and Gene Wolfe acknowledge him as a major influence and force in the field. His fiction has garnered numerous award wins and nominations and he has been given the prestigious SFWA Grand Master Award and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. This volume contains three of his early novels: the Hugo- and Nebula-shortlisted Past Master, space opera re-telling of The Odyssey, Space Chantey, and Fourth Mansions, also shortlisted for the Nebula.

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.