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Over the Mountain.
by TODD, Ruthven
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Harrap, London., 1939. First edition. First issue red cloth lettered in gilt. Octavo. 281 pages. The author's first novel, a dystopian fantasy.Presentation copy from the author to a fellow writer, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''Rupert Croft Cooke. with best wishes - Ruthven Todd''.From the blurb: ''Most readers of this oddly attractive novel will be reminded of Gulliver's Travels and even of Alice in Wonderland; and some will see the influence of Auden and Isherwood, and of the fantasies of Kafka...What is on the other side of the mountain ?...[Michael] finds a parody of all the madness of Europe, a queer country of opportunism and concentration-camps and political murder, ruled by a repressive minority, who keep the people in order by employing brutal, baby-minded policemen with a passion for lollipops and shooting.''Front cover a bit string-marked. Very good in very good dustwrapper, designed by Bip Pares, slightly tanned at the spine and with the front flap detached but present.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TODDRUTH008460
- Title
- Over the Mountain.
- Author
- TODD, Ruthven
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harrap, London.
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- dystopian fantasy
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
About Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Octavo
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