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The Curse of the Wise Woman: Available Copies

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1933. Reprinted. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Noticeable foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges are moderately cracked, exposing netting and causing boards to be loose. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

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Dunsany, Lord. The Curse of the Wise Woman. New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1933. First U.S. edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-309 [310-314: blank]. Original dark green cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. Spine panel cloth and label a bit darkened, bottom corners starting to show wear, otherwise a clean very good copy. #3515. $35. Told in the first person as a low-keyed remembrance of the narrator's youth in rural Ireland where his main interest (hunting) intersect at times with his strong but ambivalent fascination with the legend-soaked landscape. The narrator, son of a minor aristocrat who has fled suddenly to avoid the wrath of ardent Republicans, worries at times about the spiritual fate of a neighbor whose mother is a "wise woman" (i.e., a witch). The son, Marlin, has imbibed so much of the glamour of pre-Christian Celtic mythology, especially the idea of Tir-Nan-Og (the equivalent of Valhalla or the Land of the Blessed Isles -- a pagan paradise) that he believes he has forfeited his right to a Christian Heaven. The story also goes into much detail about fowl and fox hunting. ". this is the tale of a young gentleman and the mystic effect the love and fear of the Irish bog has on him . " -- Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy #896. Bleiler (1948), p. 104. Reginald 04609.

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1933. First Published. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and front hinge, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

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"Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty . . . unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision. No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm." - H.P. Lovecraft

Stated first edition. Previous owner's pastedown inside front board. Binding good, interior clean. Green boards are lightly soiled and faded; wear to spine ends and corners. Paste down on spine in good condition. Dust jacket maintains bright colors and is preserved in mylar wrap. Not price clipped. Chipped along edges with two fairly good sized chunks (1 1/2") missing from the front cover and on one the back; 1/2" ends of each spine gone as well. Lightly soiled. Top page edges are mottled. 309 pages. When an English firm dispoils enchanted Irish land, Mrs. Marlin puts her curse on the invaders.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6

203 SS. 8°. OBroschur. Schnitt und Vorsatzblatt gering unfrisch, ansonsten gut. (=The Albatross Modern Continental Library, 258) Aufmachung ähnlich den "Penguin-Books" ("Not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A") Sprache: Deutsch 499 gr.

1933. Second printing from December 1933 (the first printing was in October 1933). [iv], 326pp. Lord Dunsany or Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878-1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. He was a prolific writer of short stories, novels, plays, poetry, essays and autobiography, and published over 90 books in his lifetime. This novel differs from his earlier books by its Irish setting and restrained use of fantasy elements. It won the Harmsworth Award for the best work of imaginative prose by an Irish author. The plot concerns a motherless teenaged Anglo-Irish gentleman of the 1890s whose father has been forced to flee the country. Left in charge of the family estates, he uses his freedom to indulge his love of field sports, focusing especially on wildfowl-shooting on a nearby peat bog. When he discovers that the existence of the bog is threatened by an industrial peat-cutting syndicate he finds no effective ally except an old woman who believes herself to be a "wise woman", or witch. The syndicate is defeated either by her occult powers or by the unaided forces of nature, just as the reader chooses to believe. The book is bound in the original dark green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and a small gold illustration of two birds on the spine corner of the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling together with some faint marking from water splashes on the boards. The top corners are lightly bumped and there is a small bot of damage to the cloth on the tip of the bottom front corner. The spine is slightly faded with a little staining and the spine ends are bumped. The contents are tight and clean with a small crease across the top corner of the preliminary and first six pages. There is no inscription.

Neuware - 'Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty . . . unexcelled in the sorcery of crystalline singing prose, and supreme in the creation of a gorgeous and languorous world of incandescently exotic vision. No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm.' - H.P. Lovecraft

Undated; Gift quality copy, textblock is clean and tight; Lightly bumped head and foot of spine. 309pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp [4], 326. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine, gilt vignette of birds on front. Neat name on front endpaper. Very slight surface wear, very slight lean o/w clean vg.

203 pages. Small chip to head of jacket.

Very Good Hardcover, Limited Facsimile edition of 1933 manuscript 1/150 copies No date circa 1985

Signed Presentation Copy - second impression. p.p. 326. Errata slip. Inscribed "To Alice from Dunsany". Original cloth, damp stained.

1933 some lighter colored spots, ink stain at tip of first 18 pages.

First UK Edition Thus, First Printing. Octavo. 326 pp. Publisher's device on title page. True first edition of the 'Cheap',A very good plus to near fine copy with a very slight touch of spotting, tight binding, sharp unfaded boards, clean unmarked pages. Present and unclipped (3/6 net) is the original jacket which has very light rubbing and some wear to the top of the spine, extremities. Copies with the original jacket are exceptionally uncommon.

Editions du Rhône / Genève 1944. In-12 broché de 274 pages au format 12,5 x 19,5 cm. Couverture avec titre imprimé et petite illustration. Dos carré, légèrement insolé, avec pâle auréole en haut. Coins avec petits frottis et tassements. Coin inférieur du 1er avec petite trace de pliure. petites brunissures sur les plats. Intérieur frais. Bel état général. Rarissime édition originale de ce texte mélant réalité et fantastique dans une Irlande mystérieuse. Roman écrit par Lord Dunsany en 1935.