PLAYS OF GODS AND MEN.
Boston: John W. Luce & Company, [1917]. Small octavo. Cloth and light brown boards stamped in gilt. The legendary bookshop, Sunwise Turn, Inc., held the copyright in 1916 but it is unclear that they published a copy although they published other titles by Dunsany earlier. A delightful bookseller's label from Sunwise is affixed to the rear pastedown, indicating they sold this copy from their shop. Spine gilt slightly faded and rubbed, slightly flared at crown and toe, bookplate and brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a near fine copy without a dust jacket, but with the requisite watermark "D".
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (1878–1957), was an Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels, and essays.
The mystical city of Bethmoora, first mentioned in Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, was incorporated into The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Dunsany also invented creatures, like gnoles and gibbelins, that are likely the models for the zoogs and ghasts of Lovecraft's Dreamlands. Near fine. Item #693
Price: $175.00