Description:
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Presumed first printing. A fine, fresh copy (tasteful bookplate front pastedown) in fine dust jacket. Hardcovr. 399 pp. Edited and with a biographical introduction by Sam Moskowitz. The first full-length account and critique of sci-fi masger A. Merritt. In addition to the biographical information, the book gathers as a marginalia the unpublished or uncollected stories, fragments, poems, articles and oddments of Merritt. Included is a previously unknown short story totally unlike any other Merritt tales, a short fantasy that first appeared in The American Weekly under a pen name, two fantasy fragments including an outline for part of a novel. Thee is a selection of poetry--26 items assembled here for the first time as well as a section of Merritt's letters.