A SOCIABLE PLOVER AND OTHER STORIES AND CONCEITS. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. Octavo, five wood engraved illustrations by Reynolds Stone, boards. First edition. Collects five stories. "Invention for Four Voices" is a philosophical dialogue (a form he used several times). "Sunburnt Girl on the Rocks" is another short closet drama in which the author himself is a character. The title story is a mordant tale of murder and reincarnation. Clute and Grant (eds). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 584. A tight, bright, very good copy. (#116499).
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