[First Edition] Tales of Wonder Dunsany

London: Elkin Mathews, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. xi,187,[1]pp. Tan cloth back & gray boards. Very good condition, binding moderately soiled, brief wear to corners, front and rear free endpapers toned, text block clean. With 6 plates from illustrations by S. H. Sime. Written in part by Dunany's World War I exeperience. From the Preface: "These tales are tales of peace . . . away from a world of mud and blood and khaki, to read for a whille of cities too good to be true". Bleiler Checklist (1978), p66.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages

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