Synopsis
Fantasy - 1st edition - 1970 - 240 pg - Fantasy tale with adult humor. On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. The natural - or supernatural - laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. Things kept changing. This made the mssion with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. He was given a magic wand - but not told how to use it. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. Danger, seduction and magic lay all around him. And, as the adventure continued, somehow it darkened and became more seriousness. At the end of Fred Barber's quest lay a shattering revelation. Land of Unreason has rightly been called "a masterpiece of adult fantasy." Now published for the first time in Britain, it has been recognised in America as a classic of the genre. Indeed it can hardly be fitted into any ordinary description. The partnership of Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprage de Camp was unique, and this is certainly their finest book - hilarious, lyrical, romantic and (in every sense) wonderful.
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ISBN 10: 0440147360
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Cartier, Edd; Schoenherr, John (illustrator). Reprint. A reprint of the 1942 classic. Color pictorial wraps, 205 pp., b&w illustartions. Cover art by Esteban Maroto. Original interior illustrations by Edd Cartier. Moderately worn covers. Each page clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Seller Inventory # 006602
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are like new. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. The natural - or supernatural - laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. Things kept changing. This made the mssion with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. He was given a magic wand - but not told how to use it. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. . . Seller Inventory # 23031
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Esteban Maroto / Ed Cartier (illustrator). Land of Unreason by L Sprague De Camp & Fletcher Pratt, Dell 14736, 1979, first printing. Cover art by Esteban Maroto; interiors by Ed Cartier. Bright, square and tight; like new. Seller Inventory # pb5701
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Esteban Maroto; Edd Cartier; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Esteban Maroto; interior line drawings by Edd Cartier. Book. Seller Inventory # 233033