Eddison James Stephens (11 results)

1st PB edition. Final volume of the Worm Ouroboros fantasy quartet. Bright tight clean PB copy. 319 pp, note, b/w map. NearFine unmarked except for owner name inside whited-out. MM paperback in glossy color illus wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Small scuffing on cover.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. 2nd Printing. 2nd printing thus. (priced at 1.25) This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers are clean and bright. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but have some light, generalized toning. "Eddison's books are written in a meticulously recreated Jacobean prose style, seeded throughout with fragments, often acknowledged but often directly copied from his favorite authors and genres: Homer and Sappho, Shakespeare and Webster, Norse sagas and French medieval lyric poems. Critic Andy Sawyer has noted that such fragments seem to arise naturally from the "barbarically sophisticated" worlds Eddison has created. [11] The books exhibit a thoroughly aristocratic sensibility; heroes and villains alike maintain an Olympian indifference to convention. Fellow fantasy author Michael Moorcock wrote that Eddison's characters, particularly his villains, are more vivid than Tolkien's." (from Wikipedia).

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Remington, Barbara (illustrator). First Edition. First UK edition. Previously published in a similar form by Ballantine in the US in 1968. Introduction by James Stephens. Originally published in hard covers in the US by Dutton in 1941. Surface browning and reading creasing to the spine. The rear cover has a little browing to the white panel in the bottom right corner but otherwise only light edge wear to the covers. Pages browned with tiny creases to the top corners of a few pages but otherwise clean and unmarked. Cover painting by Barbara Remington. First printing.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. Murray Tinkelman Cover Art. (illustrator). Third Edition by Publisher. 314 pgs. ** Classic 1920's Heroic high fantasy novel Series; War between the King Gorice of Witchland & the Lords of Demonland, the superb medieval Norse epic Fantasy saga. *** "A Fish Dinner in Memison is the final volue, chronologically, in "The Worm Ourobors" group, of which James Stephens says 'His pages are living, and vivid, and noble, and are these in a sense that belongs to no other writer that I know of . this is the largest, the most abundant,the most magnificent book of our time'". Last few pages are creased. black felt marker to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Copy 566 of 998 numbered copies. xxx, (2), 350pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with foxing to fore edge in About Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, a few stains near foot, slightly soiled, small tear near head with associated crease. The second novel in Eddison's Zimiamvian Trilogy; he's best known for his novel The Worm Ouroboros.