FOGGERTY'S FAIRY AND OTHER TALES. London, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [9] 10-366 [367-368: ads], publisher's burgundy pebbled cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, black coated endpapers, top and fore-edges untrimmed. First edition. Collects nineteen short stories, including fantastic and criminous tales, a number of which were subsequently dramatized by the author. Only a few copies of this edition were circulated (according to Searle) as another publisher claimed copyright in two of the stories. The collection was reissued eighteen months later on cheaper paper as part of "Routledge's Hearth and Home Library." "Includes 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,' a (very funny) comic deconstruction of Hamlet and a possible source of Tom Stoppard's play (and film) 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.'" - Robert Eldridge. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-67. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 417. Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, p. 186. Bleiler (1978), p. 82. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 46. Spine lean, cloth worn at spine ends, corners, and along outer joints, hairling split to cloth along most of the outer rear hinge, hairline cracks along inner hinges, a reading copy. A book that overall has not aged well, this copy being no exception. (#177576).
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