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The Curse of the Wise Woman: Available Copies

Mass market paperback has some wear and spots. Pages are tanned, no marks, good binding.

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.

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

New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000

St James's Place, London: Collins, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light dent to rear board. Light browning to end papers. Minor musty odor to interior. Minor edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket. LIT/022625

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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

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") Aufgrund der von der Europäischen Union erlassenen EPR-Handels-Erschwernisse kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Polen, Österreich, Rumänien, Dänemark, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. Sollte eine deutsche Lieferadresse möglich sein, kann an diese aber problemlos geliefert werden! * * * due to EPR-Restrictions NO SHIPPING to Austria, Bulgaria, Danmark, Greece, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovakia and Spain * * * Sprache: Deutsch 499 gr.

1st ed/1st pr. Book is square, solid, and unread. No remainder marks. This book is so sharp it could slice even Superman's skin -- you'll shout up, up, and away with glee when it arrives at your door! In protective archival bag! NOTE: The FAINTEST rub of edge-wear here or there (bit more at the heel of the spine) and, obviously, the pages are age-toned. The bottoms of the pages have an old store stamp.

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

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 'There is a seam of memorable beauty running through the whole story.' - Seamus Heaney, The Listener 'This story shows Lord Dunsany at his best. His imagination, and his mellifluous prose, are to be found in it; but more than most of his books it keeps its feet upon earth . . . it has the singular, melancholy charm of something solid and yet hazy, like the woods in autumn.' - Saturday Review '[N]o reader will forget the final wild scene . . . There is a strangeness and beauty and sorrow here, and all within a small and unobtrusive frame.' - Bookman After his father's interference in Irish politics ends with a band of killers arriving on Christmas night to assassinate him, young Charles Peridore finds himself master of the estate. During idyllic school holidays, Charles enjoys riding to hounds and hunting geese and snipe while his friend Tommy Marlin tells stories of Tir-nan-Og, the land of eternal youth that lies just beyond the bog. But when Progress arrives in the form of an English corporation determined to convert the landscape into factories and housing, it appears that an entire way of life is destined to vanish. Only one thing stands in the way: the sorcery of an old witch, whose curses the English workers do not even believe in. In the novel's unforgettable conclusion, the ancient powers of the wise woman will be pitted against the machinery of modern corporate greed, with surprising and thrilling results. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) is one of the most influential fantasy authors of the 20th century, counting H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock and Neil Gaiman among his many admirers. Regarded by many as his finest novel, The Curse of the Wise Woman (1933), a rich blend of fantasy, nostalgia and autobiography, returns to print for the first time in decades in this edition, which features a new introduction by Mark Valentine.

309 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth with printed paper label on spine. 1935 ownership signature on front free endpaper; spine label a little rubbed and tanned; spine sunned; tight and sound.

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

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

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. Set in Ireland, the novel follows a young Anglo-Irish gentleman. Uncommon in jacket. Jacket chipped and torn.

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.

First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by Dunsany with his customary peacock-quill on the front free endpaper, "To Georgie, from Dunsany, Oct: 27th 1933". "The best-known and loved of all his work", the novel is semi-autobiographical and explores Anglo-Irish relations and anti-industrialisation through a supernatural lens (Amory, p. 323). The recipient, Georgiana Buller (1884-1953), was the closest friend of Dunsany's wife, Beatrice. She was a hospital administrator, a disability rights pioneer, and the founder of the first school dedicated to occupational therapy in Great Britain. She regularly visited the Dunsanys and from the publication of Time and The Gods in 1906 onwards Dunsany sent Buller copies of each of his works, signing some and writing humorous verse in others. She was the dedicatee of The Charwoman's Shadow (1926). Considered Dunsany's "first 'Irish' novel", The Curse of the Wise Woman won the Harmsworth Award of the Irish Academy of Letters for best Irish novel of 1933 (Joshi & Schweitzer, p. 4). Mark Amory, Biography of Lord Dunsany, 1972; S. T. Joshi & Darrell Schweitzer, Lord Dunsany: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 2013, A59. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, geese motif on front cover in gilt. Spine gently cocked, cloth bright, hint of rubbing to edges, offsetting to free endpapers. A very good copy.