Johnston Gunnar (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated first US hardcover edition, but has barcode typical of pod editions on one of the last leaves, signed by Pelan on the title page, the book has a light skew to the binding, bumps to the lower fore corners of the covers, and a couple spots of what appears to be dried adhesive to the covers. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in a Near Fine dust jacket, which has bumps with light creasing to the lower corners, as well as some rubbing to the covers, and is wrapped in Mylar.

Untertitel: The pied piper's notes Untergebiet: Raetica Abbildungen: Umschlagzeichnung von Gunnar Johnston Seiten: 36/XV S. Format: 8°. Einband: kt. Gebiet: Tourismus.

Octavo, pp. publisher's purple pebbled cloth, stamped in black and blind. First edition. This binding has been termed a later binding by some, but if so, it is definitely not much later than the copies bound in gold-stamped black cloth. This copy in the purple cloth binding is signed and dated 1937 on the front free endpaper by Margery Lawrence (1889-1969), a British writer of romance, detective and fantasy fiction, best known for her ghost stories. "Weird novel of an evil east European castle and its mirror image ." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 124. Reginald 07936. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Spine panel tanned, a very good copy. (#171440). Signed.