PRATT, FLETCHER AND L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP — Land of Unreason

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1942. 1st Hardback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The dust jacket has spots of rubbing, nicking and small edge chips, mostly to the spine ends and corners. There is some noticeable rubbing to the flap joints of the dust jacket. And there is light generalized fading to the covers. The rear dust jacket panel has a couple of small spots of discoloration. There is a bit of a dusty smell to the book. "Orville Prescott of The New York Times found the novel "much less successful" than The Incomplete Enchanter, saying that "Successful fantasy requires a deft delicacy of touch quite lacking in the heavy-handed technique" used here. Another Times reviewer, Beatrice Sherman, however, praised Land for its "piquant style that combines the medieval phrasing of the fairy-folk\'s conversation, the very modern talk and turns of thought of the changeling hero, and descriptions practical and poetical of the eerie magic scenery". New Worlds reviewer James Cawthorn declared the novel a "witty exploration of the world of Shakespeare\'s A Midsummer Night\'s Dream". Ron Goulart described Land as "a screwball comedy . An affable novel, and for all its preoccupation with drinking and jumping into bed, a gentle one." Baird Searles noted the novel\'s "Alice-in-Wonderland surrealism, particularly when the inhabitants of Fairyland get going on logic-chopping and semantics." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .