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Fourth Mansions: Available Copies

Bart Books NY 1988 1st ed. thus 252pp Near fine with light wear. See photos sr 3/3

Unread book in perfect condition.

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Ace Science Fiction Special. Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. Age-related wear and handling to covers. Toned pages. Red pen mark to bottom edge. Binding solid and text clean.

R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

Soft Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Printing.

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First edition (paperback first). Ace #24590. Wraps near fine with light shelf-wear. Spine square and uncreased. Binding tight. Pages lightly toned, text unmarked. Cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon.

1969. Ace Science Fiction Special 24590. Cover price $0.75. 252 pages. Paperback very good, lightly scuffed, with mild edgewear including corner crease, 1/2in tear at rear fore-edge. Spine square and uncreased. Binding intact, opening naturally to content page but otherwise sound. Pages age-toned, unmarked.

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

Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 0.25

2018. Paperback. . . . . .

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

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! >> Glue Residue mark, from Removed Price stocker at upper right cover corner, scuffing to front cover; minor black felt marker to bottom of paper spine; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers show moderate edgewear and creasing due to age and use. All pages intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.32

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

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Leo and Diane Dillon cover art. VG-NF Tight copy. Spine crease, minor edgewear. Clean, light interior.

Unread book in perfect condition.

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

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

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.

Near fine book in an excellent, price-clipped dustjacket.

First hardcover edition. FINE fresh copy in like jacket.

Octavo, boards. "Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel, which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty, as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot, essentially a secret history of the world, amounts to a complete allegory or simply a crazy game -- or perhaps both. No matter, since the result is also typical Lafferty in being highly entertaining and absorbing." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-217. The earlier American paperback original was published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Specials" series. 1970 Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-621. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-157. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 45]. Lower corners bumped, a nearly copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with new Dobson price sticker affixed (£2.75). (22278) First British (and first hardcover) edition.

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