HELEN'S LOVERS AND OTHER TALES

First edition, first printing of this notable collection of fantasy and weird tales. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with headpieces by T. L. Poulton. A very good or better copy, the binding firm and the cloth fresh and bright. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. The closed textblock edge is a little spotted. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and marked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears with associated creasing but remains without loss. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. Scarce.

A collection of eleven short stories, comprising Helen's Lovers; The Snob; The Torch, In Xanadu; Three Men at Thark; The Camel; Wax; Fiddler's Luck; Blessed are the Meek; The Elder; Tangent in Trouble. The title story is a notable Timeslip romance, while "Fiddler's Luck" and "Tangent in Trouble" are ironic tales involving human males with supernatural females in a modern context; "Three Men at Thark" is a disturbing tale of a Poltergeist, and the ghostly Conte Cruel "The Elder" is perhaps Bullett's best Horror story. (Encyclopedia of Fantasy, 1997)