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Merritt, A.: Burn Witch Burn. 32044
Neville Spearman: Jersey. 1955.
Hardcover.
Fantasy novel, first published in 1933.
''Burn, Witch, Burn! (1933), a thriller with supernatural embellishments. filmed as The DEVIL-DOLL (1936), pits a doctor and a gangster against murderous dolls devised by a witch: its sequel Creep, Shadow! (1934) involves an ancient curse relating to the destruction of the legendary city of Ys'' (Brian Stableford/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
Endpapers browned, front pastedown has inked symbols (?), top corner tips bruised, a VG copy (lacking the dustjacket).
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5.00 GBP
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Merritt, A.: Creep Shadow Creep. 31991
Tom Stacey: London. 1972.
Hardcover.
Fantasy novel, first published in 1935, and sequel to BURN WITCH BURN (1932). Very uncommon UK hardcover.
''Burn Witch Burn! (1932 Argosy; expanded 1933) and its sequel, Creep, Shadow! (1934 Argosy; 1934; vt CREEP, SHADOW CREEP! 1935 UK), the first volume filmed as The Devil Doll (1936), comprise a short series about witchcraft and horror detection. A Merritt was influential upon the sf and fantasy world not primarily through his storylines, which tended to be unoriginal, or through the excesses of his style, but because of the genuine imaginative power he displayed in the creation of desirable alternative worlds and realities. Even though, by any absolute literary standard, AM's prose was verbose and sentimental, and his repeated romantic image of the beautiful evil priestess was trivial - deriving as it did from a common Victorian image of womanhood (women being either virgins or devils) - the escapist yearning for otherness and mystery that he expressed has seldom been conveyed in sf with such an emotional charge'' (John Clute & Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
Slight browning along top page edges, ese a fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.
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75.00 GBP
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Merritt, A.: Dwellers In The Mirage And The Face In The Abyss. 30503
Liveright: NY. 1953.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Hardcover.
Omnibus edition with a new four page introduction by Donald A. Wollheim.
''A Merritt was influential upon the sf and fantasy world not primarily through his storylines, which tended to be unoriginal, or through the excesses of his style, but because of the genuine imaginative power he displayed in the creation of desirable alternative worlds and realities. He was extremely popular during his life, even having a pulp magazine, A. MERRITT'S FANTASY MAGAZINE, named after him; and Sam Moskowitz, in Chapter 12 of Explorers of the Infinite (1963), probably represents the view of many of Merritt's original readers that he was the supreme fantasy genius of his day. Even though, by any absolute literary standard, his prose was verbose and sentimental, and his repeated romantic image of the beautiful evil priestess was trivial - deriving as it did from a common Victorian image of womanhood (women being either virgins or devils) - the escapist yearning for otherness and mystery that he expressed has seldom been conveyed in sf with such an emotional charge'' (John Clute & Peter Nicholls/Encyclopedia of SF).
Fine copy in a VG price-clipped dustjacket with wear along bottom spine edge and bottom edge of front panel.
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25.00 GBP
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Merritt, A.: The Metal Monster. 10739
Hippocampus Press: NY. 2002.
First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Trade paperback original.
Reprinted here for the first time as it was originally published as an eight-part serial in Argosy in 1920, restoring close to 10,000 words of text the author cut from the original: edited and with a 14-page introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz. Full colour Virgil Finlay cover art.
Fine (as new) copy.
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Merritt, A.: The Ship Of Ishtar. 07975
Tom Stacey Reprints: London. 1973.
Hardcover.
Classic fantasy novel, first published in 1924.
''foreshadows modern heroic fantasy in its use of a secondary world and an ongoing struggle between good and evil, here personified as Ishtar and Nergal. The victory ultimately won by Good is Pyrrhic, and the happy ending seems contrived for propriety's sake. This downbeat tendency in his work became increasingly evident, although his editors did their utmost to thwart it'' (Brian Stableford/Encyclopedia of Fantasy).
Top corners bruised, an almost fine copy in an almost fine price-clipped (Virgil Finlay) dustjacket.
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15.00 GBP
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