THE BOOK OF PTATH. Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by van Vogt. This is number 129 inscribed to John I. Smith. "On a super-continent, some 200 million years in Earth's future, the godlike but amnesiac hero Ptath struggles with a beautiful female protagonist. Sheer pulp fantasy, on the fringes of SF -- but then, everything van Vogt has written is sheer pulp fantasy. One of his most vigorous books." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 46. A Burroughs-type fantasy first published in UNKNOWN, October 1943. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 5-296. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-348. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 62. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 2. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1064. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 146-48. In 333. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to black background ink at spine ends and a touch of dust soiling to rear panel. A very nice copy. (#165707).
Price: $250.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.