Eddison R Eric Rücker (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: GOOD, Decent Reading Copy. Interior illustrations by Keith Henderson; DRAGON Logo over Castle in Mountains illustrated cover by Murray Tinkelman. (illustrator). 10th Edition By This Publisher. 11/1977; Printed in Canada; Cover Printed in USA; 10th Printing; 520 Pages; GREEN Borders on Front Cover, Spine and Back Cover; Interior illustrations by Keith Henderson; DRAGON Logo over Castle in Mountains illustrated cover by Murray Tinkelman. Vertical Creases in Front Cover; store stamp to front end page; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Murray Tinkelman Cover Art. (illustrator). PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 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 volume, 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'". >>MInor creasing to covers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/ Fine. Murray Tinkelman Painted Cover. (illustrator). Second Edition. 270 pgs. *Zimiamvian is a realm which mirrors our own world. But in is passions run stronger - life, love, and treachery are epic in their intensity . and magic is reality." * >> Scuffing to covers; indents to front cover.; minor edge wear to covers.; black felt marker to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

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).

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: Near Fine. * (illustrator). First American Edition. First American edition. Black cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Pictorial end papers by Keith Henderson. 445 pp.,frontispiece & 5 additional full-page illustrations printed on text paper but not included in the pagination, as well as some smaller vignette illustrations in the text, all by Henderson. Inscribed and Signed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper: "Anne Furse / from / E.R. Eddison / 28th June 1926". Slight tanning to spine panel and gilt on spine slightly dull; minor foxing to page edges, a nice, attractive copy in the pictorial wrap-around dust jacket which has a tiny bit of chipping at head & foot of spine panel and is slightly darkened along the spine, price corner on upper front flap clipped. The jacket on this copy is completely unrestored in any way; this American dust jacket is very fragile and is almost always badly chipped or repaired, unlike here. An excellent copy. The author's first novel, a classic of high fantasy. "I still think of him as the greatest and most convincing writer of 'invented worlds' that I have read. - J.R.R. Tolkien. This American edition dates from four years after the UK edition, which was published in 1922. This edition bears a preliminary note by James Branch Cabell praising the book which is not present in the earlier UK edition. The author never travelled to America, inscribed copies of this American edition are rare.

Condition: `. First Edition. Octavo. The author's first book of fiction. Frontispiece, 445 pages. Illustrated by Keith Henderson. Eddison began writing novels of fantasy while engaged in a career for the civil service. Some have speculated that this work influenced Tolkien. Lewis also thought highly of this book. An occasional member of the Inklings who like his friend Tolkien was devoted to Old Norse which begins to be seen in his Norse saga. Styrbiorn the Strong followed by A Fish dinner in Memison which appeared in 1941. He died in 1945 before finishing The Mezentian Gate which was partially issued as a first edition in 1958. A classic fantasy novel set on Mercury. Bound in black cloth centrally stamped in gilt depicting a peguses, spine lettering gilt, endpapers are decorated with a bird like snake with accent colors in gold, black, blue and white, light wear to corners and spine ends, some staining to boards, and a small area on top edge with an area with a bit of decolorization.[Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 599. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 32].