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The Blessing of Pan: Available Copies

New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1928 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 298 Language: English Pages: 298

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The Blessing of Pan portrays English rural life under a sign of paganism, after the fashion of writers like T.F. Powys." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 

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Neuware - The Blessing Pan is one of those ambiguously fantastic novels in which it's never quite clear whether the magic is taking place in reality or in the minds of the characters. Elderick Anwrel, a nineteenth-century Anglican priest, finds that his parishioners have started to worship Pan, Greek god of shepherds. His struggle to win them back to the fold forms an epic novel of spiritual warfare.

Binding lightly character-soiled and spine-faded; Faint ring from glass/cup on front cover; Spine tips gently frayed, boards a little edge-worn with gently bumped corners; Front hinge tender at the top edge, else textblock clean but a little aged; Bookplate on front pastedown, signed by Nellie Burget Miller, the Poet Laureate of Colorado; Stated First American Edition; Lacks dust jacket; 277p. Size: 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall

First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. A fantasy work from this Irish author. A close to near fine copy in green cloth boards with some minor wear. Internally a clean copy. No dust jacket.

1927. Cloth, octavo, 287 pp. Gilt titles to spine and front board. Spine sunned. Top rear corner slightly bumped. Usual foxing to end papers. Overall, very good.

[Strange fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] vi; 277 [3]. With a halftone frontispiece by S.H. Sime. Publisher's green cloth, black titles to upper board and spine. Moderate toning and light foxing throughout, heaviest to preliminaries and rear leaves. Toning to textblock edges. Light toning to edges of cloth, sunning to spine. Very good. Of a similar theme to Robin Hardy's 1973 'The Wicker Man,' 'The Blessing of Pan' tells the story of a paranoid vicar who's convinced that his parishioners are secretly reverting to pagan worship - beginning with a mysterious flute melody resonating from within the village woods.

First Edition. Frontispiece by S.H.Sime. G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1927. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on title and spine. Ink name on fly leaf o/w very good.

September 1927. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, lightly toned to spine, and rubbed to edges with small (< 1/2-inch) spot of fraying to top edge of rear panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Heavy foxing to textblock edges; sporadic texting to margins in interior. Bookplate at front paste down; news clippings of book reviews adhered at rear paste down. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with 1928 to both title-page and the copyright page. Octavo, pp., vi, 277, [1]. Frontispiece by S. H. Sime, to whom the book is dedicated. Publishers' bright emerald green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped green pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth clean and bright, and slightly creased at spine tips. A little scattered foxing to text-block edge otherwise contents clean, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket nicked & creased to edge with two short 2 cm tears, small loss at upper folds and moderate loss at tail of spine/lower cover. A near fine copy in a good dust-jacket. Magical fantasy woven by the Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) in which the residents of a quaint English village revert to worshipping their ancestors pagan god Pan. Rare, especially in the fragile jacket.

Publisher's green cloth titled in black. Stated first American edition. Spine ends/points slightly rubbed/bumped. Block edge slightly foxed. Endpages toned. Frontis illustration. Firm binding. The scarce DJ in mylar is toned, chipped to spine ends/points with clear tape reinforcement to points at verso. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pages

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-287 [288: printer's imprint], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Sidney H. Sime, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Boldly signed by Dunsany on the front free endpaper. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-116. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 584. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 74. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 892. Bleiler (1978), p. 65. Reginald 04603. Anderson I.45.a. Some scattered foxing, mainly to preliminary and terminal leaves, a bright nearly fine copy. Enclosed in a cloth dust jacket and open face quarter crushed Morocco slipcase. Signed copies of this book are uncommon. (#173073)

A novel of paganism in English rural life. "The Blessing of Pan is remarkable in Dunsany's work for being a tightly knit fabric of symbols; every action, every utterance is symbolic of some aspect of the conflict between paganism and Christianity, Nature and civilization, that is at the heart of the novel. It contains some of his most careful, heartfelt writing, and it quietly builds to a powerful and cataclysmic conclusion.an event as rich with awe and wonder as anything in his earlier work."- S. T. Joshi, Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination, p. 104. vix, 287 pages. With a frontispiece illustration by S. H. Sime. Currey, Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, p. 168. (NB: The US edition, also Putnam's Sons, was issued in 1928). First edition (first printing, with "First published September 1927" on the copyright page. Some foxing to the preliminary pages and to the page block edges, but generally a very good copy in the publisher's blue cloth; in a very good example of the dust jacket, missing a fingertip-sized piece from the top edge. Scarce in jacket.

First edition, first impression, inscribed with Dunsany's customary peacock-feather quill on the front free endpaper, "Dunstall Priory, Shoreham, Kent, Here where this book was writ / Twenty eight years ago / I sign a page of it / For Miss Joan St. Clair, SO - Dunsany, Feb. 5. 1955.", beneath St Clair's ownership inscription, dated 29 September 1953 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Dunsany visited the US in 1953, 1954, and 1955, speaking at literary events across the country. It is likely he met St Clair there and signed this copy during a reciprocal visit. Lord Dunsany was "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century; a writer of great originality and charm" (Bleiler). The Blessing of Pan, "one of a great number of modern fantasies that champion paganism against Christianity", is "light and ironic in tone" and describes the gradual and seemingly inevitable fall of a village priest and his parishioners to the worship of the great god Pan (Magill, p. 129). Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction, 584; Magill, I, pp. 129-31. Octavo. Frontispiece by Sidney H. Sime. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Rubbing to extremities, wear to corners, foxing to outer leaves, offsetting to free endpapers. A very good copy.