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Patches of Sunlight: Available Copies

NO DUST JACKET - Square, strong, and completely unmarked copy with moderate wear to boards including a bumped bottom front corner and fading on boards and spine; interior fine. 8 glossy b&w illustrations including frontispiece of Lord Dunsany. 1st American printing.

(1938) Good in Good unclipped dust jacket; dust jacket has open tearing to extremities and creasing; there is bleaching to the cloth; no markings to the text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

First edition, a clean unmarked copy in the dust wrapper, with loss to the edges.

Green cloth with gilt spine titles, light edgewear, sunning to spine. Spine cocked forward slightly. Binding cracked to mull at half title, but intact, and else sound. Textblock edges foxed, with additional foxing to interior at first and last few pages. Small early bookseller's ticket at front paste down, and bookplate at FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

First American edition, published in the same year as the English edition. Frontispiece portrait of Lord Dunsany. Octavo. ix, 309pp. Blue buckram with spine paper label. A few pages have small stain in margins, opposing pages to illustrated pages have the typical foxing, spine and edges are sunned, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with long closed creased edge tear on front panel, minor chipping to extremities, one-inch surface abrasion on rear panel (causing slight loss of printing on rear panel, where sticker carelessly removed), else quite bright.

Green cloth first edition shows light wear at points and spine ends. Light soiling. Two marks to spine. Some toning. No jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Hardcover. First Edition. viii, 299pp. Foxing to prelims, spine just a bit sunned, else a very good hardbak bound in publisher's green cloth; lacking the jacket.

BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKINGS TO THE BINDING OR TEXT AND GILT SPINE LABLE FINE, BUT CLOTH IS SUNNED ALONG THE EDGES AND SPINE AS IS ALMOST ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED WITH THIS BOOK. D.J. IS LIGHTLY WORN AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS WITH A SMALL 1/4" TRIANGULAR CHIP AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE PANEL, SHALLOW SURFACE CHIPPING AT THE SPINE HEEL, A COUPLE OF TINY EDGE TEARS, AND IS PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY IN A BRIGHT D.J. VERY GOOD+ IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.

London, William Heinemann, 1938. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. A little chipping to the edges of the jacket, price clipped, a little toning. Block with limited foxing to the edges of the block. Some Sime illustrations and a couple of photos. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was a prolific writer and one of the architects of what has now cemented itself as the fantasy genre. His work, along with Eddison, Macdonald and Morris, was key in creating the channels from folklore and mythology to entirely synthetic secondary worlds. [11818, Hyraxia Books].

Viii, 299 Pp. Green Cloth With Gilt Title, Author's Name And Publisher's Name All In Gilt. First Edition (Uk), Preceding The Us Edition. A Near Fine Book, Light Bumping At Ends Of Spine. Handwritten Annotation By Mrs. Dunsany At Top Of Front Free Endpaper "From The Library Of Lord Dunsany / B. Dunsany 1958", Obtained Directly From Her By A Collector At A Sf Convention. In A Good Dust Jacket, Worn, Small Chips And Tears, Including Loss Up To 1/2" Deep At Top Of Spine Removing Word "Lord".