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From the Realm of Morpheus: Available Copies

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.52

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.52

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.52

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.52

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.52

Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. Dust jacket included with hard covers unless otherwise noted. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. Your satisfaction guaranteed with every order!

Piece(s) of the spine missing. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Several dogeared pages. Text is unmarked. Dj shelf worn with scuffs, creases. light soiling, toning & small tears in a mylar cover.

A Very Good copy in blue and black hard covers, in a lightly edge-worn Very Good dust jacket (not price-clipped). Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, clean/unmarked within. (Not ex-library.)

Stated First edition. Dark blue cloth over blue boards with spine titles in gilt. Octavo. 270 pages. Nice bright and clean copy in a complete dust jacket with a little edgewear.

First edition 1st printing, Fine minus, unread, book with touch of shelf wear and pushing at spine ends, in a Very Good jacket with light edge and corner wear, wrinkled at spine ends with some color loss, two small closed tears bottom back panel with old interior tape repair.

First edition stated with complete number line. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 Book; binding tight, mild bumping to top and bottom edges else boards straight and clean; minor soiling to top edge with mild bumping and soil spot to bottom edge else text free of marks, appears unread. Dust jacket ($17.95) has mild bumping and chipping to mostly spine and flap fold ends with 1/2" closed tear to top front cover, 3" crease to bottom corner front flap with slight toning to flaps and rear cover, mild fading to spine. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

First Edition, First Printing. Dustjacket in protective mylar sleeve. No Writing in text, slight wear to edges and cover. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.

Book has two corner bumps and some soiling to the bottom of the page block. Dust jacket has edge wear motly at the crease. Dust jacket protected by removable Brodart cover.

Dustwrapper shows a bit of edgewear and a 1/2" sticker removal mark to front panel. Still, a decent copy of this, the first edition of the author's fourth book.Millhauser won the Pulitzer Prize for "Martin Dressler". 370 pp.

DJ has light edgewear and small cracks on the edges. Back cover is slightly yellowed. Top and bottom textblocks are yellowed with minor foxing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

F/VG+. D.J. HAS A VERY SMALL BIT OF CORNER AND SPINE-END WEAR WITH A TINY TEAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE REAR PANEL, AND A SHORT TEAR AT THE SPINE HEEL. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dustwrapper. Small smudge of foredge; light spotting on top edge; dustwrapper lightly chipped at spine ends, corners.

2nd printing. Bright & tight copy, unread, in Near Fine condition (slight foxing on edges). "Here is Steven Millhauser's most brilliant, expansive creation yet, the adventures of Carl Hausman, a dreamy, dissatisfied young man who, while watching a baseball game one hot August afternoon, chases a foul ball into a thicket and discovers an opening into the underworld. Morpheus, the genial master of that realm, takes Carl on an epic tour that includes the lost kingdom of Atlantis, a library containing the conclusions of all the books that were never finished as well as all the books mentioned in other books but never actually written, mirrors with memories, mermaids, giants, and a man who sprang to life out of a mediocre painting. [] But the most memorable resident of this remarkable world is surely Morpheus himself, 'a denizen of the dark, a magnifico of murk, a malingerer, a ne'er-do-well, a fair chessplayer, a dabbler in this and that.' [] FROM THE REALM OF MORPHEUS is a sweeping journey through the pleasures and sorrows of art, love, illusion and reality, set in a vividly detailed world that uncannily reflects our own. This feast of brilliant storytelling is sure to join the rest of Steven Millhauser's books on the short shelf of truly indispensable contemporary fiction." [jacket copy] "The dream-world suggested in the title begins with an image of a remembered life in an unspecified time and place. . . Here, Emma Bovary chats amiably with Leopold Bloom, and figures from history, literature, legend, myth and fable disport themselves in settings that are transfigured versions of Olympus, Camelot, Dante's Inferno, Atlantis, Lewis Carroll's and T. H. White's fantastic universes. A carnival atmosphere prevails: special effects done by mirrors and sleight of hand, and staged in a mock-Elizabethan lingo that is generally amusing but sometimes misfires; at times, too, the elaborate enterprise is excessive to a fault. But the festival air is disarming, and the ebullient author/impresario. . . is equal to the formidable task he has set himself."--Publishers Weekly. "Steven Millhauser is a worthy descendant of Hawthorne. There are only a few stylists left in American writing, but he's one of them."--Guy Davenport. "Narrator Carl Hausman stumbles through an opening to the underworld, where he meets its master, Morpheus. With these two life-loving picaros, we tour a strange realm, experiencing much of the action through the further remove of various interpolated tales. A portrait-figure steps out of his painting to live a Wertherean life. Mirrors and shadows discourse on the nature of love. Morpheus recounts his own longing for a mermaid, while the narrator has a Brobdignagian romantic adventure and descends to Atlantis, a monument to artifice surpassing even Byzantium. In a work whose language, structure, and vein of fancy recall the 18th century, love and aesthetics are recurring themes. Admirers of Borges, Hoffman, or Wilde will enjoy the tour de force writing, witty wordplay, and clever invention found here."--Library Journal. Near Fine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges (very slight foxing), a square & tight binding, wrapped in a NF handsome & intact jacket. Quite presentable.

First edition, first prnt. Spine end cloth lightly pushed ; dustjacket with minimal edgewear, mostly at the spine bottom edge. Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Millhauser's third novel.

1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on front end page (signature only). $17.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

author signed (title page)first print hardcover in mylar protected dust jacket. vg/vg; top of board spine dented and scattered foxing to page ends, perhaps gently used but a pretty decent copy overall; no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, dj price intact, first edition stated, number line down to 1. fiction hardcover.

1st printing. DJ has a couple of closed tears, also light foxing to top of page edges. NF+/NF+.

VG+/VG+. First Edition. Remainder mark bottom edges. 370 pp. Author went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ten years later.

Dust jacket has minor wear to ends of spine and flap folds, and a few light scratches on front panel. A novel. 370 pages.

370 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.