The Midnight Folk

5mm fading at head of spine. Early owner's name and address on front endpaper. Foxing to dust-jacket. 65 x 10mm piece missing across top of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket joints rubbed with abrasions. 25mm tear to front panel of dust-jacket. A 60 x 5mm chip to blank upper margin of rear flap of dust-jacket. 25mm tear to rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Colonial edition. Heinemann's Colonial Library. 327, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Black border to front board. Page dimensions: 189 x 120mm. Printed price "7/6 NET" on front flap of dust-jacket. Fantasy novel. "Young Kay Harker, a descendant of the eponymous hero of Sard Harker (1924), has lost his parents, and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for Pirate treasure in the grounds of his family home. Aided by several Talking Animals and a Witch, he travels into a "midnight" Otherworld, a Crosshatch with this world and apprehensible, De La Mare-fashion, through Dreams; he is threatened by Black Magic; he finds a new family." - John Clute, entry "Masefield, John" in "The Encyclopedia of Fantasy" edited by John Clute and John Grant. London: Orbit, 1997. Accessed online November 2024.

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Publisher: William Heinemann

Year: (1927)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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