ROSE ROYAL. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-419 [420: blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain in 1911 as DORMANT. Romantic fantasy of the rejuvenation of a girl who has been in suspended animation for fifty years. "A strange hybrid novel relating to the search for eternal youth by occult and scientific means; closer to Nesbit's children's fantasies than to her normal style of ghost fiction." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 380. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-229. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-267. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1229. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 680. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 84. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 300. Bleiler (1978), p. 147. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). A nice, clean, very good copy. An uncommon book. (#74251).
Price: $350.00
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