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Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-9] 10 [11] 12-194 [195-196: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], one illustration by N. W. Physick, title page printed in red and black, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's first novel. Visiak's "best work shadows SF, horror and fantasy modes, employing speculative metaphysics in a manner similar to the fiction of his friend David Lindsay. In stories of this sort, the consensual word is argued -- sometimes in passages of considerable length -- as being an expression of the dream world, or world of archetypes. Such texts do not easily fit into template definitions of the various genres of the fantastic . THE HAUNTED ISLAND is clearly fantastic, and engagingly deploys ghosts and magic in a tale of pirates set on a mysterious island in the 17th century." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 987. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 175. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 219 (describing a similar copy). Bleiler (1978), p. 200. Reginald 14687. See Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 444 for a concise summary of Visiak's contributions to the horror genre. Corner tips a bit soft, a very good copy with bright cover stamping. A scarce book. (#171554)
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VISIAK, E. H.. THE HAUNTED ISLAND A PIRATE ROMANCE. ELKIN MATHEWS PUB 1910, LONDON, 1910.
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Description: BURGANDY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. BOTH FRONT AND REAR COVERS HAVE BEEN UNACCOUNTABLY PUNCTURED AND THIS HAS AFFECTED BOTH FRONT AND REAR ENDPAPERS AND NUMEROUS ADJACENT PRELIMINARY AND TERMINAL PAGES. THE ABRASIONS ON THE COVERS WHILE EVIDENT ARE ONLY FAINTLY VISIBLE. IF NOT FOR THIS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A FINE COPY WITH VERY BRIGHT SPINE TITLES AND TITLES ON THE FRONT COVER, NO FADING TO THE SPINE, OR WEAR TO THE EDGES. STILL A VERY NICE COPY OF A VERY RARE BOOK, AND VISIAK'S FIRST NOVEL.
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VISIAK, E. H.. THE HAUNTED ISLAND A PIRATE ROMANCE. ELKIN MATHEWS PUB 1910, LONDON, 1910.
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Description: DEASSESSIONED COPY WITH MINIMAL LIBRARY MARKING INSCRIBED BY VISIAK ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER AND AGAIN SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BURGANDY CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. OTHER THAN SMALL OWNERSHIP AND DEASSESSION STAMPS FROM "THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA LIBRARY" AND SOME VERY MODEST SUNNING TO THE SPINE AN EXCELLENT CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF A RARE BOOK AND QUITE A BIT MORE SO SIGNED.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.