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SIGNED COPY. Hard cover, 8vo, 286pp. In publisher's brown cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. In the distinctive yellow Gollancz dust jacket with black and red lettering. Reissue of E. H. Visiak's 1929 masterpiece, inscribed and signed by him on front free endpaper and dated Aug 10, 1963. CONDITION: Near Fine in a Very Good, unclipped dust jacket which has some light marks and wear at the edges, now protected in mylar. Foxing to fore-edge of text-block visible when book closed. ** E.H. Visiak, born Edward Harold Physick (1878-1972) was an English writer and critic. His main area of study was John Milton, whose "Paradise Lost" contains many themes of morality and allegory. Visiak was a friend and champion of the Scottish writer David Lindsay, and wrote a piece comparing Lindsay's novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920) to the works of Milton. He wrote four novels, and published works of criticism as well as collections of poetry. ** "Medusa" start out as a seafaring tale (H.E. Bates compared it to works by Robert Louis Stevenson). However, like a story by H.P. Lovecraft, the adventurers encounter other-worldly creatures, and the tale becomes one of horror, and escape from an unknowable doom. Bleiler "The Guide to Supernatural Fiction" #1636 (the original 1929 Gollancz edition).
Ref: FANT 9663
$475.00