Visiak medusa5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Subtitled 'being sundry records from the proceedings of the Society for the Investigation of Faery Fact & Fallacy' - the society beign a framing narrative for the stories. No copies located in the jacket in commerce (asigned, vellum-bound copy with a pasted sketch, but without the jacket, sold last year for ?2000). Collector's plate to the front pastedown and a slight lean. The jacket and block edges are a little foxed. Visiak's short stories, collected here for the first time, as a bonus. ![]() This ultimate edition ofMedusa is everything you've been dreaming about: the complete novel, a new introduction from Colin Wilson, and thirteen of E. Editions of the novel sell for hundreds of dollars on the collector's market. The condition is very good, with a couple of long tears to the folds (longest around 40mm), some tearing to the lower spine has been reinforced to the interior. Medusa is a classic novel of cosmic horror originally published in the late 1920s. Apparently, Bleiler took the book as a sleight on Conan Doyle and his belief in fairies, though it seems Doyle and Sleigh were on the same page. Contains 10 short pieces examining encounters with fairies, dryads and water nymphs. The book is published with a woodcut by Sleigh to the verso of a prelim between the half title and title leaves. ![]() I think this is his first and only book of prose (preceded by poetry). ![]() Bernard Sleigh is perhaps best now remembered for his maps of Fairyland (primarily Ancient Mappe of Fairyland - though at least one earlier map exists), with his fiction becoming a little sidelined. ![]()
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