BOOK OF THREE DRAGONS. New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., [1930]. Large octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xii [1-2] 3-206 [207-210: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], eight inserted plates with illustrations by Ferdinand Huszti Horvath, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, pictorial endpapers. First edition. The scarce trade issue with "Longmans, Green" imprint on title page and "first edition" on copyright page, not the later more common "Junior Literary Guild" issue. Celtic fantasy recasting the first and third branches of the Mabinogion. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, pp. 663-64. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 161. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 797. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 539-42. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 143-44. Reginald 10395. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). The usual patchy fading to cloth (a cloth dye defect, not abuse), else a fine copy in near fine four-color pictorial dust jacket with light wear along edges and several closed tears and associated wrinkles to same, latter largely at corners of rear panel. Overall, a very nice example of an uncommon jacket. (#104178).
Price: $850.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.