Signed Fantasy Classic

The King of Elfland's Daughter [Signed, Numbered]

Dunsany, Lord [Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany] and Sidney H. Sime

Publication: London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. First Edition.

Notes: One of 250 copies of this foundational fantasy novel signed by Dunsany and his favorite illustrator Sidney Sime. This limited edition preceded the trade edition and is bound uniform with the limited editions of The Chronicles of Rodriguez and Time and the Gods.

Dunsany "was instrumental in creating the essential autonomous venues within which modern fantasy could be told... LD's first novels unequivocally set out to occupy what might be called the domain of fantasy... His second novel... is one of the seminal fantasies of the century. The Kind of Elfland's Daughter is a crosshatch [a book set in more than one world] in which—almost for the first time, and certainly for the first time with any conviction—the two poles (our world and faerie) are of equal weight."—Clute and Grant, Encyclopedia of Fantasy.

Quarterbound in vellum paper over terra cotta cloth boards. Spine label stamped in gilt.

On laid paper, except as noted: [4:blank, wove paper], [4], [inserted frontispiece with a tissue guard], [12], 301, [3:blank], [4:blank, wove] pages.

Edition + Condition: First edition; signed and numbered issue preceding the trade edition. Copy 231 of 250; signed by Dunsany below his preface and by Sime below the image on the frontispiece. A very good or better copy in quarter-vellum paper and brown cloth; leather spine label.

Item No: #223704

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