Author:Shiel, M. P

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The Lord Of The Sea.

By: Shiel, M. P.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Souvenir Press: London.: 1981.

Seller ID: 07884

ISBN: 0285624822

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Light spotting along page edges, a near fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

Reprint of a classic sf novel, first published in 1901.

''his finest work is generally conceded to have been The Purple Cloud (1901). THE LORD OF THE SEA (1901) almost as fine, is strongly based on Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1844-5; trans anon as The Count of Monte-Cristo 1846 UK) by Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). It develops a network of mid-19th-century sensational motifs -- incredible coincidences, swapped babies, hidden identities, chance-found incredible wealth, documents in a trunk, festering revenges, elaborate prison escapes, frustrated romance, Napoleonic megalomania -- yet, thou...
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How The Old Woman Got Home (with dustjacket).

By: Shiel, M. P.

Price: £150.00

Publisher: The Richards Press: London.: 1927.

Edition: First edition (& variant binding).

Seller ID: 47269

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning and spotted, front free endpaper affixed to front pastedown, a VG copy in a good pictorial dustjacket (priced 7/6) with dust-soilng to rear (white) panel and wear and creasing along edges, including a fingernail-sized chip along the bottom edge of the spine panel.

Mystery novel. Variant/later binding of blue cloth (the first binding state has red-orange cloth).
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The Pale Ape And Other Pulses.

By: Shiel, M. P.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire.: 2006.

Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 18408

ISBN: 1872621988

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Attaining an ethereal wedding of cosmic awe and emotional unease beyond the grasp of his peers, M.P. Shiel (1865-1947) was an author whose lyrical, emotionally-charged style proved the perfect aesthetic vehicle with which to express the grandiose and macabre. A true eccentric, his mystically charged narrative style and technique enraptures. Poetry of the truest sort, the crystalline complexity of his images -- mirrored by his sentence structure -- is heightened further by a less apparent but crucial underlying resonance of the outr. Admired by both Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft, the latter ...
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Author:Shiel, M. P

The Lord Of The Sea.

How The Old Woman Got Home (with dustjacket).

The Pale Ape And Other Pulses.

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