O’Duffy (Eimar) The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street.
£295
London, Macmillan, 1928
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly price of 7/6 on front flap.
Satirical science fantasy of a visit to another planet and the second volume of Eimar O’Duffy’s Cuanduine (Spectrum of Fantasy p168)
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NF/VG – small bookseller label to front pastedown. Design of grotesque humanoid alien on front cover. The stylistic jacket has had some minor restoration at spine ends but is otherwise bright..
Spectrum of Fantasy p168.
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