THE NIGHT SHAPES

First hardcover edition, first printing. Original burgundy faux leather with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm. There is some spotting to the closed text-block edge and light offsetting to the endpapers, the contents are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is a little faded at the spine. Not price-clipped (£3.95 on the front flap).

A lost world novel that is a fix of up the short story 'Serpent's Fetish' by James Blish, published in Jungle Stories winter 1948 and the novelette 'The Snake-Headed Spectre' by Virginia Kidd (as V. K. Emden, her first married name), literary agent and Blish's wife from 1947-1963, in Jungle Stories summer 1949.