![]() ![]() ![]() Their price on the Visiak, a less than brilliant example, is £800 where a 'monkey' (£500) might be more appropriate.Īs for Visiak's Medusa, a weird story of a voyage to unknown waters, Clute and Grant in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) describe it thus: ".as hard to categorize as Lindsay's A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920). A friend who was there this summer for the UEFA World Cup said there were some good books in Johannesburg but almost all severely, even excessively, overpriced. There are 3 copies on the web, two with the same U.S based dealer and another ('.the author's excessively scarce first novel') with a South African conglomerate, the same bunch that want a wallet-punishing £8000 for the EXCESSIVELY SCARCE first issue (black cloth) of John Fowles The Collector a book that I had, until now, thought was in the descendant. Bleiler defines it as 'adventure stories with fantastic elements' and it is an uncommon but not impossible book. His first book The Haunted Island: A Pirate Romance (Elkin Mathews L 1910) is quite scarce. His poetry is relatively common and often turns up signed, as does his Milton scholarship. I have had books signed by him in the late 1960s- usually in a very spidery hand. Visiak, was the pseudonym of Edward Harold Physick. MEDUSA: A STORY OF MYSTERY AND ECSTASY, & STRANGE HORROR. ![]()
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