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The Man Who Ate the Phoenix: Available Copies

First edition. Octavo, pp., 224. Publisher's taupe cloth; black titles to spine; white end-papers Cover cloth rubbed at spine tips and corners. A little light toning to text-block and end-papers. Previous owner's inscription in blue ink to front-free end-paper. A very good copy. A collection of 41 fantasy short-stories by the Anglo-Irish writer. Dunsany's influence on fantasy writers was profound. J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur C. Clarke, and Guillermo Del Torro all cite Dunsany as a major influence. Ursula Le Guin wrote of Dunsany 'On the map of literature, I see Dunsany as a small, walled city in a desert, with opal walls and spires of bronze, and strange little streets, and a great gate made from a single tooth. The lord of the city is a generous host. It is not on the beaten path, but it is worth visiting.' Scarce. Le Guin, Lord Dunsany: In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales.

First edition. Black cloth gilt. Spine lettering a little dull but easily readable, a little rubbing on the binding, a very good copy without dustwrapper. A collection of stories, some with fantastic elements.

First edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Stories of fantasy and the supernatural.Free endpapers a bit tanned. Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in very good indeed, very slightly chipped dustwrapper.Very good indeed in very good pictorial dustwrapper a little nicked, rubbed and creased at the edges. Scarce in such presentable condition.

[Short stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223; [1]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 9s. 6d. to front flap. Slight toning and spotting to textblock, otherwise internally clean. Minor edgewear. Very good. 'The Man Who Ate the Phoenix' is a collection of fantasy short stories, with 41 pieces. Lord Dunsany was involved in the Irish Literary Revival, and his contribution to the Irish literary heritage was recognised with an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin.

First Edition. 223pp. Small octavo. Original black cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the spine. Minor wear along the edges of the boards and some rubbing to the front. A small publisher's description of the book has been affixed to the front pastedown. The wonderfully illustrated dust jacket has not been price clipped; a minor amount of shelf-wear along the edges of the jacket, mostly to the head and tail of the spine. Inscribed by the author on the ffep in black ink; inscribed again by the previous owner, just beneath Dunsany's inscription, with the claim that this was a "pre-publication copy from the author". Previous owner's stamp to the title page, as well as to the back free-endpaper. A wonderfully inscribed copy. A lovely collection of short stories, as well as the novella that the book is named after. Dunsany has inscribed this copy to Manuel Tarshish, an avid book collector and aspiring author; Tarshish's inscription to Franklin V. Spellman, who was a bookseller, is also present.