Quick dorothy dorothy quick mayer (2 risultati)

Octavo, pp. 101, publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow. First edition. Quick's third book of poetry. Dorothy Gertrude Quick Mayer (1896-1962), American novelist and poet, is known today for her friendship with Mark Twain as a child and her weird fiction published in the pulps during the 1930s. "Much of Quick's work was in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, or horror, starting with the story "Scented Gardens" in ORIENTAL STORIES in 1932. She was one of the most frequent contributors of short stories and poems in WEIRD TALES starting in the 1930s, including the story "Strange Orchids," about a carnivorous plant that consumes a woman from the inside out. Her series of "Patchwork Quilt" stories about a quilt which conveys the user through time, appeared in UNKNOWN in 1939 and 1940. She wrote a planetary romance novel, STRANGE AWAKENING (1938), about a woman transported to Venus who helps a rebel prince overthrow a tyrannical psychic mind that rules the planet" (Wikipedia). Cloth rubbed at edges, a very good copy. (#177992). …

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 9-266 [267-270: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained blue. First edition. Erotic fantastic adventure novel of a young woman kidnapped from Earth and transported to Venus by its ruler, the "Great Mind," who "will presumably have his will of Iva, then cast her into a flaming pit and watch her combust." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1352. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 179. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11950. Top edge stain a bit faded, a bright, near fine copy with very good printed dust jacket with light wear at edges and several closed tears with internal tape mends. Overall, the jacket is an attractive example. An uncommon book, especially in jacket. (#90887).…