DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE & PRATT, FLETCHER — The Castle of Iron
New York, NY: Gnome Press, 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by BOTH L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt on the front endpaper, along with a short inscription to Samuel A. Peeples (western fiction author and Science Fiction enthusiast). This copy is variant A : with the Gnome Press inprint on the book cover on one line, not two. (though it's possible this is an entirely separate variant, as it has orange boards with maroon lettering). The book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The orange paper covered boards are generally clean and bright, however there are small horizontal lines of discoloration (they are the same color as the lettering and decoration, and all at the same heights) to the front, spine, and rear cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket of the book is in clean, bright condition, with the exception of noticeable toning to the spine , and some light rubbing to the flap joints. "The Castle of Iron is a fantasy literature novella by American authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, and of the novel into which it was later expanded by the same authors. It was the third story (and afterwards the second volume) in their Harold Shea series. The Harold Shea stories are parallel world tales in which universes where magic works coexist with our own, and in which those based on the mythologies, legends, and literary fantasies of our world and can be reached by aligning one's mind to them by a system of symbolic logic... In The Castle of Iron, the authors' protagonist Harold Shea visits two such worlds, first (briefly) that of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" and second that of Ludovico Ariosto's epic, the Orlando Furioso. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by All Authors. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .
