FATA MORGANA. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Joe Servello, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "This delightfully inventive novel that begins in late-nineteenth-century Paris features a detective named Paul Picard, whose erotic adventures are soon rivaled by supernatural ones as he becomes involved with an extremely strange case that takes him across eastern Europe. The magician he is trailing, in fact, casts Picard into a series of landscapes superimposed over the real ones of Germany, Hungary, and Transylvania, and the ambiguous conclusion leaves both Picard and the reader wondering how much of his experience was real and how much was manipulation by the magician. Playfully complex and highly entertaining." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-212. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-153. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels 65. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#161661).
Price: $100.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.