First reprint (and first cheap edition) of the William Hope Hodgson's first book. Publisher's original variant light green paper covered boards with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and toning to the board edges. The contents, with toned paper-stock as always are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rare, original dustwrapper that is rubbed and nicked at the extremities and with a small chip at the base of the spine. An attractive example.
The first edition was published in 1907 by Chapman and Hall. A horror story in which the survivors of a shipwreck in the 18th century come to an eerie land of strange life-forms and thence to the Sargasso Sea, with further alien creatures, including humanoid slugs! (Locke: Spectrum of Fantasy; Bleiler).
Stock code: 20340
£750