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From the Realm of Morpheus: Available Copies

Good condition. Good 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.

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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

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

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

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. Jacket is in a mylar protector. All books shipped in boxes.

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.)

First edition hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket (in a mylar cover). Come color loss around edges of DJ; also mild edgewear

8vo, 370 pp.

Excellent condition. Binding is tight and square. Pages are very crisp, clean and bright with no markings. DJ shows trivial to no wear. DJ is protected by a mylar cover.

First printing, very good + hardcover shows hint of pencil shadow at top corner of front endpaper, yellowish sticker shadow at top corner of half title and some other light trace wear, in very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows a small faint stain at spine edge of rear panel, bit of toning and edgewear that includes small closed tears. 370 pages. Still a pleasing copy in jacket of this work from award winning novelist.

Stated First Edition. First printing with a number line starting with 1. The book is tight with solid hinges and good tips. Crease/indentation to the top front board. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($17.95) with light wear and mild crease to the top front flap (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 269 pages. 6½ x 9½". Carl Hausman stumbles into the underworld and is led by Morpheus, the genial master of that realm, on a mesmerizing tour through the pleasures and sorrows of art, love, illusion, and reality.

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 minor shelfwear in protected DJ with a little edgewear,

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.

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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.

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+.

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

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

370 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

One of the author's best, the is the adventures of Carl Hausman, a dreamy, dissatisfied young man who, while watchinf a baseball game one hot August afternoon, chases a foul ball into a thicket and discovers an opening in the underworld. 370 pages. A hint of wear along upper front edge near spine. Beautiful copy.

Fine in a fine dj. (Tiny spots of shelfwear) Author's FOURTH book.