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The Tyranny of the Dark
by Garland, Hamlin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Novel of a "girl" with psychic powers she doesn't understand, and her rescue from 'darkness' by her lover; a change in subject matter for Garland, better-known for his literary realism and memoirs of rural life, though he became interested in spiritualism in the 1890s, and spent much of his time investigating psychic phenomena after his move to Hollywood in 1929. Bleiler, Checklist of Science-Fiction & Supernatural Fiction p. 79. Hardcover in partial jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, corners rubbed, minor bumps to edges; jacket torn & creased, with only a 1-inch square of the spine left - a remarkable survivor! Ink name & date on free endsheet, some foxing, mostly to/adjacent to the plates, endsheets tanned; text clean; [viii], [439] pages; 8 b/w plates as called for. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Illus. by W. E. Mears. Duodecimo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0614
- Title
- The Tyranny of the Dark
- Author
- Garland, Hamlin
- Illustrator
- W. E. Mears
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Size
- Duodecimo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Spiritualism, Occult, Fantasy, Modern First Editions, BIBLIO-LIVE-4
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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