The Unholy City
Publication: New York: Vanguard Press, 1937. First Edition.
Notes: An Asian fantasy, about the sole survivor of a plane crash who wanders about mysterious places "where surreal ways of living expose themselves" (quoting Clute and Grant's Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
Finney's first book, The Circus of Dr. Lao, won one of the inaugural National Book Awards.
168 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, with no indications of later printings). Endpapers tanned, as usual, and spine darkening, thus very good in a very good dust jacket with some loss at the spine ends and several closed tears, including one repaired with tape on the back (verso).
This copy belonged to the Lovecraft collector James Strand, and it has his posthumous estate bookplate on the front pastedown. He apparently purchased it used some time ago, for $5.
Item No: #366031
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