HODGSON WILLIAM HOPE The Night Land

Sale 2462 - Lot 176

Price Realized: $ 3,500

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Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500

THE DREAMS THAT ARE ONLY DREAMS HODGSON, WILLIAM HOPE. The Night Land. 8vo, original red cloth, front cover stamped in gold and ruled in blind, gilt titles to spine, only light fading to spine, corners bumped; minor foxing to fore-edges and front and end matter. A clean, square copy. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912

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first edition, a bright, unfaded copy. Famously described by H.P. Lovecraft as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written." Issued with and without publisher's 16 page catalogue inserted at rear, no priority, this copy with the catalogue. "As a visionary phantasmagoria it is without parallel" (Barron, Fantasy Literature 3-178). Quite scarce, especially in this condition. Currey, p. 243; Bleiler, p. 101.