Sphinx by David Lindsay (First Edition)
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Sphinx by David Lindsay (First Edition)
$2,000.00 USD
Sphinx by David Lindsay (First Edition)
Authors: David Lindsay
Series/Book Number: 1
Location: London
Publisher: John Long, Limited
Date: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Features: Published 1923, stated p. 318. Copyright 1923. Sea green cloth with black lettering and blind stamped design and ruling; 318 pp. Publisher's adverts laid in at rear.
Book Condition: Very Good+: Mild wear to spine edges and corners. 3" tear to the edge of page 229. Mild offset tanning to endpapers.
Notes: "British metaphysical novelist. A writer of great imagination and originality, odd strengths and weaknesses... A very strange novel with both thought-provoking metaphysics and a good picture of pre-Titanic resort life among the British middle classes. Most critics have dismissed Sphinx as a failure, but I find it curiously fascinating." E.F. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983, p. 312-313.
HCX23200-1
Authors: David Lindsay
Series/Book Number: 1
Location: London
Publisher: John Long, Limited
Date: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Features: Published 1923, stated p. 318. Copyright 1923. Sea green cloth with black lettering and blind stamped design and ruling; 318 pp. Publisher's adverts laid in at rear.
Book Condition: Very Good+: Mild wear to spine edges and corners. 3" tear to the edge of page 229. Mild offset tanning to endpapers.
Notes: "British metaphysical novelist. A writer of great imagination and originality, odd strengths and weaknesses... A very strange novel with both thought-provoking metaphysics and a good picture of pre-Titanic resort life among the British middle classes. Most critics have dismissed Sphinx as a failure, but I find it curiously fascinating." E.F. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983, p. 312-313.
HCX23200-1