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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. frontispiece and decorations by Keith Henderson (illustrator). Reprint. Firmly bound with light handling wear including creases along the spine.

Zustand: New. In.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Henderson, Keith (illustrator). 445 pages. 8.50x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Henderson, Keith (illustrator). In.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Henderson, Keith (illustrator). 540 pages. 6.00x1.22x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Henderson, Keith (illustrator). KlappentextrnrnThis is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction. J. R. R. Tolkien acclaimed its author as the greatest and most convincing writer of invented worlds that I have read. Written in the best traditions o.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Henderson, Keith (illustrator). Neuware - 'An eccentric masterpiece' -- Ursula K. LeGuin'A new climate of the imagination' -- C. S. Lewis'A masterpiece' -- James StephensThis is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lord of the Rings first appeared, the critics inevitably compared it to this 1922 landmark work. Tolkien himself frankly acknowledged its influence, with warm praise for its imaginative appeal. The story of a remote planet's great war between two kingdoms, it ranks as the Iliad of heroic fantasy.In the best traditions of Homeric epics, Norse sagas, and Arthurian myths, author E. R. Eddison weaves a compelling adventure, with a majestic, Shakespearean narrative style. His sweeping tale recounts battles between warriors and witches on fog-shrouded mountaintops and in the ocean's depths -- along with romantic interludes, backroom intrigues, and episodes of direst treachery. Generations of readers have joyfully lost themselves in the timeless worlds of The Worm Ouroboros. This new edition, magnificently illustrated with the classic original images, continues the enchantment.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 446pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, and with a gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board. With a frontispiece, a two-colour title page decoration, endpaper decorations, five plates, and various tailpiece decorations by Keith Henderson. The cloth rubbed and a little frayed at the backstrip ends. The tips of two corners knocked. Tiny miscellaneous blemish to the fore edge margin of the upper board. The front hinge just a fraction tender. Free endpapers lightly toned. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A good bright copy. No dust wrapper. Probably the author's most famous book, a heroic high fantasy novel which was praised by Tolkien (who had known the author), C.S.Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Clive Barker; and deemed by science fiction scholar E.F.Bleiler "still the finest heroic fantasy".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 284pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped decoration to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a title page decoration, a frontispiece and twelve Henderson tailpiece decorations. Top edge lightly dust marked and spotted, others untrimmed. A narrow strip of browning to the free endpapers and a touch of soiling to the pastedowns. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper which reproduces a larger version of the frontispiece design; the wrapper is price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, a little marked, spotted and stained in places with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel, just a fraction of further loss from the tail and several more millimetres of loss from the corner tips and upper edge. A historical novel by the honorary Inkling, retelling 'The Tale of Styrbjörn the Swedish Champion', written between his celebrated fantasy works 'The Worm Ouroboros' (1922) and the 'Zimiamvian Trilogy' (1935-1958).