Lord Dunsany - The Strange Journeys of Colonel Polders - Jarrolds, 1950, Signed First Edition.

London, Jarrolds, 1950. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Signed by the author to the front endpaper. Some wear to the jacket edges, spine lean, some dustiness, offsetting to the endpapers. Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was a prolific writer and one of the architects of what has now cemented itself as the fantasy genre. His work, along with Eddison, Macdonald and Morris, was key in creating the channels from folklore and mythology to entirely synthetic secondary worlds. [11814, Hyraxia Books].