(#77332) THE FIERY DIVE AND OTHER STORIES. Martin Armstrong, Donisthorpe.

THE FIERY DIVE AND OTHER STORIES. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-283 [284: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in yellow green. First trade edition. A mixed collection of six stories, including "Saint Hercules," an "earnest religious fantasy which has more in common with the works of Laurence Housman." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-9. "In the Wilds" concerns the fears of a city woman in the country, due to "something that she finds threatening, heartless and malignant in the wilds of Nature ..." (Times Literary Supplement review). Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 56. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 28. Bleiler (1978), p. 10. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). A bright, clean, about near fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with fraying and shallow loss at head and tail of spine panel, short closed tears at upper and bottom edges of rear spine fold (discreetly mended internally with transparent archival tape), age-darkening to spine panel, and some age-darkening. Uncommon in jacket. (#77332).

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